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NBN Episodes hosted by Carrie:

Sarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon" (U Toronto Press, 2018)

September 22, 2020

Transforming Indigenity

Sarah Shulist
Hosted by Carrie Gillon

Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that languag…

Jennifer Mercieca, "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump" (Texas AM UP, 2020)

May 27, 2020

Demagogue for President

Jennifer Mercieca
Hosted by Carrie Gillon

Polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, media, and traditional politicians set the stage in 2016…

Chelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)

April 9, 2020

A Grammar of Belep

Chelsea McCracken
Hosted by Carrie Gillon

Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts &a…

Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She" (Liveright, 2020)

March 17, 2020

What's Your Pronoun?

Dennis Baron
Hosted by Carrie Gillon

Today Dennis Baron talks about his new book What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He & She (Liveright, 2020). Baron is professor emeritus in English at the…

Alexandra D'Arcy, "Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE" (John Benjamins, 2017)

December 4, 2019

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context

Alexandra D'Arcy
Hosted by Carrie Gillon

Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. Alexandra…

Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)

November 4, 2019

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race

Jonathan Rosa
Hosted by Carrie Gillon

Jonathan Rosa's new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Pr…