Episodes

  • Podcast episode 39: Interview with Ingrid Piller on Life in a New Language

    Podcast episode 39: Interview with Ingrid Piller on Life in a New Language
    Apr 30 2024
    In this interview, we talk to Ingrid Piller about her forthcoming co-authored book Life in a New Language. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 38 Kachru, Braj B. 1985. ‘Standards, codification and sociolinguistic realism:…Read more ›
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    26 mins
  • Podcast episode 38: Interview with Dan Everett on C.S. Peirce and Peircean linguistics

    Podcast episode 38: Interview with Dan Everett on C.S. Peirce and Peircean linguistics
    Mar 31 2024
    In this interview, we talk to Dan Everett about the life and work of the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and Everett’s application of Peirce’s ideas to create a Peircean linguistics. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google…Read more ›
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    24 mins
  • Podcast episode 37: Interview with Michael Lynch on conversation analysis and ethnomethodology

    Podcast episode 37: Interview with Michael Lynch on conversation analysis and ethnomethodology
    Feb 29 2024
    In this interview, we talk to Michael Lynch about the history of conversation analysis and its connections to ethnomethodology. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 37 Button, Graham, Michael Lynch and Wes Sharrock (2022) Ethnomethodology,…Read more ›
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    27 mins
  • Podcast housekeeping December 2023

    Podcast housekeeping December 2023
    Nov 30 2023
    In this brief audio clip, we provide an update on what’s been happening with the podcast – and what’s coming up. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts McElvenny, James. 2024. A History of Modern Linguistics: From the…Read more ›
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    1 min
  • Podcast episode 36: Interview with Ghil‘ad Zuckermann on revivalistics

    Podcast episode 36: Interview with Ghil‘ad Zuckermann on revivalistics
    Sep 30 2023
    In this interview, we talk to Ghil‘ad Zuckermann about language reclamation and revival in Australia and around the world. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts References for Episode 36 The Barngarla trinity: people, language, land. The Barngarla…Read more ›
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    30 mins
  • Podcast episode 35: Interview with Nick Thieberger on historical documentation and archiving

    Podcast episode 35: Interview with Nick Thieberger on historical documentation and archiving
    Jul 31 2023
    In this interview, we talk to Nick Thieberger about the value of historical documentation for linguistic research, and how this documentation can be preserved and made accessible today and in the future in digital form. Download | Spotify | Apple…Read more ›
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    22 mins
  • Podcast episode 34: Interview with Mary Laughren on Central Australia languages and Ken Hale

    Podcast episode 34: Interview with Mary Laughren on Central Australia languages and Ken Hale
    Jun 30 2023
    In this episode, we talk to Mary Laughren about research into the languages of Central Australia in the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on the contributions of American linguist Ken Hale. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts…Read more ›
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    25 mins
  • Podcast episode 33: Formalism and distributionalism

    Podcast episode 33: Formalism and distributionalism
    May 31 2023
    In this episode, we examine the formalist aspects of the linguistic work of Edward Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield, and see how their methods were turned into the doctrines of distributionalism by the following generation. Download | Spotify | Apple Podcasts…Read more ›
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    22 mins