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About Linguistics Everyday
Bringing linguistics concepts into the everyday!
- Publisher
- Linguistics Everyday
- Category
- education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 3 Sept 2023
Latest episodes
18 episodes in the feed.
3 Sept 2023
Cree - With Arms Wide Open - A Linguistic Primer
Cara, Drew, and Ed are back to do a deep dive into the the Native American language of Cree. They explore the rich linguistic heritage, cultural significance, and fascinating nuances of Cree, shedding light on a vital part of Indigenous culture. @LinguisticsEver @carabrarian @edwardgiordano linguisticseveryday@gmail.com The Papers Discussed Proto-Algonquian Stop Clusters in Cree-Montagnais by David H. Pentland On the Animate-Inanimate Distinction in Cree by Brian D. Joseph Interactive Word Completion for Plains Cree by William Lane, Atticus Harrigan, and Antti Arppe Plains Cree pêyâhtikowêwin: The Ethic of Talking Softly by Jeffrey Muehlbauer
7 Feb 2023
The Manchu Candidate
On this episode of Linguistics Everyday, Ed, Cara, and Drew discuss the Manchu language, the Jurchen people, and a little bit about the History of China. Contact us at @LinguisticsEver or email us at LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com Some papers: Language death and language revivalism The case of Manchu by Daniel Kane The Manchu Academy of Beijing by Laura E. Hess Manchu-Chinese Bilingual Compositions and Their Verse-Technique by Giovanni Stary Some Observations on a Rubbing of a 17th—Century Inscription in Uighur-Mongolian Script with Elements of Manchu Script and Orthography by Hsiao Su-yin The Legitimization of the Qing Dynasty by Piero Corradini
3 Aug 2022
Human and Language Migration in the Past
My friend Drew Vendrell comes to share some of his research on human migration in the past and how it affected spoken language patterns, with a huge breadth and scope from sea to shining yangtze. linguisticseveryday@gmail.com @linguisticsever @edwardgiordano @carabrarian Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36788165.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34832781.amp https://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2018/12/europes-ancient-proto-cities-may-have.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=JTY9K1Q_Sbg https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=XqweWFRCleY https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=LRBwWZs3W0Q
10 Apr 2022
Ukraine on the Membrane
Cara and Ed are back to discuss the tumultuous history of the Ukrainian Language! Some sources: The Ukrainian Language under Totalitarianism and Total War Language Attitudes in Independent Ukraine: Differentiation and Evolution The Ukrainian Language in Education and Mass Media
19 May 2021
Arctic Knot Conference w/ Wikitongues and Wikimedia Norway
This week we are joined by Kristen, from Wikitongues, and Jon, from Wikimedia Norway, to discuss the upcoming Arctic Knot Conference, taking place from June 24th to 25th, 2021. They discuss the ongoing preservation efforts they are taking with the Sámi languages at the conference. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Knot_Conference_2021 Thank you to Kristen and Jon for filling us in on all the details of the conference and what both organizations are up to! The History of Ideas with Astrid Carlsen https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sp9KQXu3RQeSpVZyWAyRg?si=KHAx_071Q72Ux1RZKomh_A @LinguisticsEver LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com
2 Mar 2021
Scandinavian Rune Sisters
Cara and Ed come back from a brief hiatus and tackle Scandinavian Languages! Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, Oh My! This episode is Bokmål of Nynorsk stories! A super fun episode, lots of laughs and a bit of language knowledge! https://termcoord.eu/2014/05/scandinavian-languages-mutually-understandable/ https://wordminds.com/blog/difference-nordic-languages/ https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/the-scandinavian-languages-three-for-the-price-of-one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onduQjgAj8Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onduQjgAj8Y) https://ww.youtube.com/watch?v=oOjv1nMXCmw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOjv1nMXCmw) The two Norwegian official written standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk. Linguistic and ideological implications of national bilingualism and biliteracy By Tove Bull Icelanders’ Opinions on the Role of the State in Teaching Icelandic to Foreigners by Pamela Innes @LinguisticsEver @Carabrarian @EdwardGiordano
30 Nov 2020
Lingua Pakistani
This week, Cara and Ed discuss all about the languages of Pakistan! We discuss the languages of Punjabi and Urdu in detail, as well as the script of Nastaʿlīq. The paper of the episode is Language Ideology, Identity and the Commodification of Language in the Call Centers of Pakistan by Tariq Rahman. LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com @LinguisticsEver @Carabrarian @EdwardGiordano Sources: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-languages-are-spoken-in-pakistan.html https://www.dailysabah.com/travel/2018/03/10/pakistan-a-land-of-many-languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxSd7p1i_TA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxSd7p1i_TA) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98snj9lUXMQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98snj9lUXMQ)
29 Oct 2020
Quechua Catch Up
Cara and Ed focus on South America this episode! We discuss the major languages of South America, but then shift our focus on to the indigenous language of Quechua, with its approximately 8.5 million speakers, it is a major language in its own right. Enjoy and PLEASE VOTE! @LinguisticsEver @Carabrarian @EdwardGiordano LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com (mailto:LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com) Sources: https://www.mustgo.com/worldlanguages/indigenous-languages-of-south-america/ https://www.gviusa.com/blog/quechua-the-surviving-language-of-the-inca-empire/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vXqw24wQHo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXj28dXPAU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_languages Spanish as a Second Language when L1 is Quechua: Endangered languages and the SLA Research by Susan E. Kalt
21 Sept 2020
Interview with Wikitongues Director Daniel Bögre Udell
Today, we interview Wikitongues (https://wikitongues.org/) Director Daniel Bögre Udell! He talks about the origin of Wikitongues and its mission as well as discussing language rights all over the world and some upcoming projects for Wikitongues! A super great jam-packed episode! Daniel's Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXB3-yVGHcI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXB3-yVGHcI) Wikitongues Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/WikiTongues @wikitongues @bogreudell @linguisticsever @carabrarian @edwardgiordano
18 Aug 2020
Slavic Language Cousins
Cara and Ed tackle the Slavic Language Family with an emphasis on the Russian Language, from its Old Church Slavonic roots to the modern languages of Czech, Macedonian, Polish, Serbo-croatian, Slovak and more! @LinguisticsEver @Carabrarian @EdwardGiordano LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Slavic_languages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfpEPjfB12g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4cXIyyc-L0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLM62r5nLI https://blog.thelinguist.com/similarities-differences-slavic-languages/
25 Jul 2020
New Kings of the World Book Discussion - Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop
Cara and Ed along with special guest, Emily Wheeler of Film Inquiry, discuss New Kings of the World by Fatima Bhutto to talk about Bollywood, Dizi, K-Pop, and the shifting of soft power from America to the rest of the world. We also discuss the magical power of SRK, Turkish Soap Operas and K-Pop groups like NCT 127. @linguisticsever @movieop @carabrarian @edwardgiordano LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com https://www.filminquiry.com/silly-brilliance-orlando/ https://bookshop.org/books/new-kings-of-the-world-dispatches-from-bollywood-dizi-and-k-pop/9781733623704
10 Jul 2020
Language and Identity in South Sudan
In episode 7, Cara and Ed discuss the value of an official language in the modern nation state, how language influences identity and what the language situation is in South Sudan, from Juba Arabic to English and a bit of Swahili. @LinguisticsEver @Carabrarian @EdwardGiordano LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com South Sudan Civil War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84fjG22fCrE Peace in South Sudan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_lXeyYuOnk South Sudan Travelogue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH7UyI4mHM Article on Language Policy in South Sudan https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/14/for-south-sudan-declaring-independence-from-arabic-is-not-so-easy-language-politics-juba-khartoum-english/
18 Jun 2020
Emoji as Lingua Franca
Cara and Ed gather on this minisode to celebrate a huge milestone for the podcast: 500 downloads! We discuss the research of Gretchen McCulloch about emojis as language and a little bit about the experiment that was Emoji Dick (an Emoji translation re-telling of Moby Dick). We also discuss how we use emojis in our day to day lives. LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com @LinguisticsEver @Carajoell @EdwardGiordano References: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62584/will-we-all-speak-emoji-language-couple-years https://the-toast.net/2016/06/29/a-linguist-explains-emoji-and-what-language-death-actually-looks-like/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Ybyoaz9iw https://lingthusiasm.com/post/186386270916/lingthusiasm-episode-34-emoji-are-gesture-because
11 Jun 2020
A Death in the Rainforest Book Discussion
In Episode 5, Cara and Ed, along with guest Jen, discuss A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea by Don Kulick. We discuss the death of the Tayap language as well as the people of the village of Gapun. https://bookshop.org/books/a-death-in-the-rainforest-how-a-language-and-a-way-of-life-came-to-an-end-in-papua-new-guinea-9781643750477/9781616209049 @linguisticsever @carajoell @jennibcreative @edwardgiordano linguisticseveryday@gmail.com
22 May 2020
Hebrew Language Revitalization
Cara and Ed gather to discuss the only truly revitalized language, Hebrew. From its 3000 BC roots to modern day, the language had been on a rollercoaster. We discuss how it’s been influenced by Arabic throughout its history and how Biblical Hebrew is different from Modern Hebrew. You can email us at LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com (mailto:LinguisticsEveryday@gmail.com) Twitter us @LinguisticsEver @Carajoell @EdwardGiordano References Langfocus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70jb2c8Qtsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfThdgT6GSk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BByig02vJWM Unpacked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBiiad9fO-g A Brief History of Modern Hebrew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IChcua1MLDg https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/israel-hebrew/reviving-hebrew-persian-ancient-languages-eliezer-ben-yehuda-manekji-limji-hataria/ https://ling.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/alumni%20senior%20essays/Freeburg%2C%20Elizabeth%20-%20Senior%20Essay.pdf
6 May 2020
Language Death and Destruction
Ed and Cara discuss what is Language Death. With a language dying about every two weeks, preserving and recording these languages is of the utmost importance. We discuss different ways languages die (Gradual Language Death, Bottom-to-Top Language Death, Sudden Language Death and Radical Language Death). We also discuss dialect stigmatism and standardization in France. @linguisticsever @edwardgiordano @carajoell linguisticseveryday@gmail.com References: Wikitongues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMkmEzUE18 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMkmEzUE18) Langfocus on Language Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3qbYFvOHwk France 24 Video on French Dialect Diversity Death: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO5eq6dOPok Language Magazine article on Mandarin language education: https://www.languagemagazine.com/2020/04/23/tibetan-language-phased-out-as-schools-switch-to-mandarin/ Afrikaans coverage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dolLuO9hM5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWKAWxbjWs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWKAWxbjWs)
26 Apr 2020
English Any Way You Want It
Ed and Cara take a deep dive into the world of English Based Creoles from the Carribean, Africa and the Pacific like: Hawaiian Pidgin to Kreyol to Jamaican Patois to Singlish to Manglish and many more! How an accent transforms over time in an isolated setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKGErnN9W8 @linguisticsever @edwardgiordano @carajoell linguisticseveryday@gmail.com
26 Apr 2020
Creoles a Beginner's Guide
Ed and Cara introduce you to the exciting world of creole languages! We discuss how a pidgin becomes a creoles, what makes a creole a creole to begin with as well as touching on the world's many creoles like Haitian Creole, Louisiana Creole, Malaysian Creole and Juba Arabic. How an accent transforms over time in an isolated setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKGErnN9W8 @linguisticsever @edwardgiordano @carajoell
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