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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 16 days 15 hours 27 minutes
episode 109: A Better Way to Buy Books
A Conversation with Andy Hunter, Founder and CEO, Bookshop.org
episode 205: Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India" (Permanent Black, 2023)
An interview with Prachi Deshpande
episode 75: The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
Talking is a defining part of what makes us human – we are almost constantly in dialogue but what purpose does all this conversation serve? Both for the individual and for society. And what is happening in our brains when we do it? Shane O Mara has been thinking about those questions for his book, Talking Heads: the New Science of How Conversation Shapes our Worlds (Jonathan Cape, 2023). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones...
episode 166: Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili" (Ohio UP, 2022)
An interview with Morgan J. Robinson
episode 112: Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
An interview with Jieun Kiaer
episode 193: Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
A Discussion with Phrae Chittiphalangsri, Vicente L. Rafael, and Vicente L. Rafael
episode 228: Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)
An interview with Courtney Adams Wooten
episode 127: Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan" (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)
An interview with Jae DiBello Takeuchi
episode 128: The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
An interview with Noson S. Yanofsky
episode 99: The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad
Translation is a mysterious process that combines the elements of writing – rhythm and voice, meaning, structure and nuance – with the challenge of problem-solving. The American writer Harry Mathews said, “translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing, since it demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech...