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- 6. Dr. Judy Pine
In this interview, we hear from Judy Pine on where linguistics resides within anthropology, where linguistic anthropology resides within the world, and how, for Judy, the process of becoming a linguist continues.
Episode transcript by Graham Blair
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In this episode, I heard from Professor Janet Xing on her most recent research and how her language classes shape that research. We also talk about hesitations students have with taking some linguistics classes and clear up misconceptions about them!
Episode transcript by Graham Blair
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Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License25 min - 4. Dr. Anne Lobeck
Variations in language norms, feelings about grammar “correction,” where prescriptivism and descriptivism overlap — 🎶 these are a few of my favorite things 🎶 And they’re also just some of the topics Anne and I touched on in this episode.
Resources mentioned:
Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History (book) by Anne Curzan
Agreement, Default Rules, and Grammatical Viruses (journal article) by Nicholas SobinEpisode transcript by Graham Blair
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I got to ask Ginny about her awesome research with Tiwa speakers (that she started in undergrad!), her more recent work on the coordinator “slash” (or / when it’s written), and recognizing areas of needed reflection within linguistic fieldwork. Also, why students don’t need to be scared of formal semantic notation.
Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
John R. Rickford & Sharese King - 2016 - "Language and Linguistics on Trial: Hearing Rachel Jeantel (and Other Vernacular Speakers) in the Courtroom and Beyond"
Episode transcript by Graham Blair
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In this episode, I got to speak with Dr. Emily Curtis! We talked about combatting harmful prescriptivism with fascinating linguistic knowledge, the importance of explaining jargon in academic papers, linguistic stereotypes in much-loved media, and more.
The World Atlas of Language Structures is the database/map of languages and their features mentioned near the end of the episode!
Episode transcript by Graham Blair
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Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License50 min - 1. Dr. McNeel Jantzen
I had an awesome conversation with Dr. McNeel Jantzen about her academic background, her research, the Language and Neural Systems Lab, and more.
Two notes for this episode:
1) You probably caught the “explicit” marking on this one — it’s only for some brief swearing near the middle, but this is a cognitive neuroscience-heavy episode of a linguistics podcast, so excited cursing is nearly unavoidable.2) I’m so sorry for every time I said “cognitive neuroscienTIST” instead of “cognitive neurosciENCE,” but by the powers of linguistics and CN, maybe we can call this goof an interesting phenomenon?Episode transcript by Graham Blair
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Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.comCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License47 min - Trailer: Welcome to The Podling!
Welcome to The Podling! This podcast is exploring the question "What is linguistics?" through interviews with professors in WWU's Department of Linguistics. We'll be looking at academic and career paths, the history and current vibe of the field, and more.
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This project is developed and hosted by senior linguistics student Jess Costanza.
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About The Podling
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Asking "What is linguistics?" and answering with what it looks like out in the world, starting with the linguists at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.