Conlangery Podcast

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November 26, 2017Conlangery #133: Language and Identity
Jake and Kaye come on to talk about how language can interact with identity, across ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class identities.
Top of Show Greeting: Faikari. /ˈvɐ͡ɪ.kʰɒ.ˌʁi/
Links and Resources:
Plural you
Key and Peele skits 1, 2
Stigmatization of speech associated with women
“Sounding gay”
Journal of Gender and Language
Mondorf, B. (2002) Gender differences in English syntax. Journal of English Linguistics, 30(2), 158-180
Holland, D. C. (2001) Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Harvard University Press.
Butler, J. (2011) Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge
Oakley, A. (2016) Disturbing Hegemonic Discourse: Nonbinary Gender and Sexual Orientation Labeling on Tumblr. Social Media + Society, 2(3), 205630511666421.
Renninger, B. J. (2015) “Where I can be myself … where I can speak my mind” : Networked counterpublics in a polymedia environment. New Media & Society, 17(9), 1513–1529.
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52min
October 03, 2017 Conlangery SHORTS #26: Phonix
This week, George discusses Phonix, a sound change applier that will help you with your historical conlanging.
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9min
September 04, 2017Conlangery #132: Coptic (natlang)
This episode, we discuss Coptic, the last descendant of thousands of years of Ancient Egyptian, now spoken mainly as a liturgical language in Coptic Christian churches in Egypt.
Top of Show Greeting: Nalathis
Special Mention: Go watch Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues!
Links and Resources:
Plumley, Martin (1948) An Introductory Coptic Grammar. London: Home and van Thal.
Tattam, Henry (1863) A Compendious Grammar of the Egyptian Language. London: Williams and Norgate.
Layton, Bentley (2000). A Coptic grammar: With chrestomathy and glossary: Sahidic dialect (Vol. 20). Otto Harrassowitz.
Loprieno, Antonio (1995) Ancient Egyptian: a linguistic introduction. Cambridge University Press.
Lambdin, Thomas Oden (1983) Introduction to Sahidic Coptic. Mercer University Press.
Youssef, Ahmad Abdel-Hamid (2003) From Pharaoh’s Lips: Ancient Egyptian Language in the Arabic of Today. American University of Cairo Press.
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57min
August 07, 2017 Conlangery #131: The Seventh Language Creation Conference #LCC7
This month Christophe and William come on to talk about their experience at LCC7. Along with a few people William recorded on his phone. View the conference page here and all the videos of talks here.
Top of Show Greeting: Croatian (translated and performed by Dorian Frangen)
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1h 21min
July 03, 2017 Conlangery #130: Interview with Kaye Boesme
Kaye Boesme joins George to talk about her far-future audiodrama Epiphany.
Top of Show Greeting: Narahji
(Note, I am working on a transcript for this episode. It has been delayed by irregular baby napping.)
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1h 6min
June 06, 2017Conlangery #129: Non-Vocal Languages
Jake Malloy and David Peterson join George to talk about sign language as well as a few other ways humans communicate non-vocally.
Top of Show Greeting: Bakom
Links and Resources:
SLIPA
ASL Lessons
ASL classifiers
Non-manual markers in ASL
ASL Internet slang
Plains Indian Sign Language
Tactile Signing
Black ASL
Signed Exact English (signed English relex)
SignWriting (proposed script for ASL)
The Non-Verbal Dictionary
The Gripping Language
Napoli, Donna Jo and Jeff Wu. (2003) Morpheme structure constraints on two-handed signs in American Sign Language: Notions of symmetry. Sign Language & Linguistics. 6(2), 123-205.
Sandler, W., Aronoff, M., Meir, I., & Padden, C. (2011) The gradual emergence of phonological form in a new language. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 29(2), 503–543. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-011-9128-2
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1h 24min
May 02, 2017 Conlangery SHORTS #25: Listen Like a Conlanger – Specialized Terms
George talks about how to listen to the language all around you like a conlanger, especially when you encounter weird specialized terms or senses of words.
Wiktionary entry on “wrong” (includes the sewing sense)
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14min
April 05, 2017Conlangery SHORTS 24: Personal Conlanging Progress
George talks a bit about his personal progress with Middle Pahran.
Draft Grammar of Middle Pahran
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24min
March 06, 2017Conlangery #128: Lingua Philosophica
David Salo comes on to talk about his historical research into George Dalgarno’s Lingua Philosophica, a 17th century philosophical language. We discuss the features of Dalgarno’s work, a little of how it compares to other work of the time and also its influence on the history of conlanging.
Top of Show Greeting: Lingua Philosophica (translated and read by David Salo)
Links and Resources
Linguifex article
The Works of George Dalgarno (19th century reprint of Dalgarno’s work)
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1h 1min
February 10, 2017 Conlangery #127: Language Policy
William is out for this month so we have Jake Malloy here to talk a bit about language policy, both official and unofficial, as well as a bit about language attitudes.
Top of Show Greeting: Shidhunarien
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1h 32min

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