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Language September 22, 2020

Transforming Indigenity

Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon

Sarah Shulist

Hosted by Carrie Gillon
Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of …
Language May 27, 2020

Demagogue for President

The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump

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 for an unprecedented presidential contest. For many, Donald Trump’s campaign …
Language April 9, 2020

A Grammar of Belep

Chelsea McCracken

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Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at Dixie State University and Senior …
Language March 17, 2020

What's Your Pronoun?

Beyond He &amp

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 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and …
Language December 4, 2019

Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context

Eight hundred years of LIKE

Alexandra D'Arcy

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Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. Alexandra D'Arcy's book Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight …
Language November 4, 2019

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race

Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad

Jonathan Rosa

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Jonathan Rosa's new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial …