We’re climbing back into the linguistic time machine and taking a look at language in the long view. We’ll find out what language was like…
When language was innovated, what happened next? How did it change our abilities — and our responsibilities — to each other? Dr Nick Enfield shares ideas…
Here’s an entire show, curated by one of our most prolific contributors — newly minted speechie PharaohKatt! She’s got news. She’s got words. She tries…
In what was meant to be a casual chat, cognitive scientist Dr Mark Ellison answers galaxy-brain-level questions about how language works. Fortunately, he helps us…
Linguistics as a discipline throws up challenges to Indigenous linguists. At the same time, they’re the ones called upon to fix it. It can’t stay…
All it took was a tweet. Last week, linguists refocused their attention on a paper about humidity and tone. Was it bad linguistics? Environmental determinism?…
What we call sometimes Chinese is really a gigantic family of languages. They’re somewhat divided in mutual intelligibility, and somewhat united in their writing system.…
We’re taking over Pint of Science (or are they taking over us?) for this episode! Three researchers are presenting their work in language, and they’ll…
The definition of white supremacy: is it expanding, or are we just getting better at recognising it and its reach? How does white supremacy show…