Interviews with Scholars of Language about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/language
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 16 days 14 hours 39 minutes
episode 1198: Sofia Stolk, "The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror" (Routledge, 2021)
An interview with Sofia Stolk
episode 64: Mónica Guzmán, "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" (BenBella Books, 2022)
An interview with Mónica Guzmán
episode 191: The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism
An interview with Aleix Ruiz-Falqués
episode 40: Hana Videen, "The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish)...
episode 58: Zhihui Fang, "Demystifying Academic Writing: Genres, Moves, Skills, and Strategies" (Routledge, 2021)
An interview with Zhihui Fang
episode 279: Priyambada Sarkar, "Language, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore" (Oxford UP, 2021)
An interview with Priyambada Sarkar
episode 440: Szu-Wen Kung, "Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context" (Routledge, 2021)
An interview with Szu-Wen Kung
episode 106: Jennifer Delfino, "Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children" (Lexington Book, 2020)
An interview with Jennifer Delfino
episode 315: Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)
An interview with Jennifer Petersen