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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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Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education
May 06, 2024
Peter J. Freeth and Rafael Treviño, "Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility: Critical Reflections and New Perspectives" (Leuven UP, 2024)
May 02, 2024
The Shanghai Alliance of Multilingual Researchers
May 01, 2024
Michael Boler, "Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach" (Catholic U of America Press, 2019)
Apr 27, 2024
Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19
Apr 27, 2024
Ross Perlin, "Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)
Apr 27, 2024
Sanskrit Study: A Conversation with Antonia Ruppel
Apr 12, 2024
Elizabeth Peterson, "Making Sense of 'Bad English': An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies" (Routledge, 2019)
Apr 12, 2024
James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
Apr 09, 2024
Kieran File, "How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Apr 05, 2024
Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)
Mar 29, 2024
Denise Kripper, "Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature" (Routledge, 2023)
Mar 25, 2024
Interpreting Service Provision is Good Value for Money
Mar 18, 2024
Erin Elizabeth Greer, "Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)
Feb 29, 2024
What Does It Mean to Govern a Multilingual Society Well?
Feb 22, 2024
What Can Australian Message Sticks Teach Us About Literacy?
Feb 21, 2024
Rebecca Roache, "For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Feb 20, 2024
Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?
Feb 19, 2024
Language Makes the Place
Feb 18, 2024
Translanguaging: A Discussion with Ofelia Garcia
Feb 16, 2024
This is What Language Means
Feb 16, 2024
Lies We Tell Ourselves about the History of Multilingualism
Feb 15, 2024
Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Jan 28, 2024
James St. André, "Conceptualising China through Translation" (Manchester UP, 2023)
Jan 23, 2024
Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Jan 20, 2024
Mudita Nisker and Dan Clurman, "Let's Talk: An Essential Guide to Skillful Communication" (2022)
Jan 14, 2024
Gabriel Abend, "Words and Distinctions for the Common Good: Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science" (Princeton UP, 2023)
Jan 02, 2024
Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan
Dec 29, 2023
Magda Stroińska, "My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes" (Durvile, 2023)
Dec 21, 2023
Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 20, 2023
Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen
Dec 19, 2023
Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Dec 07, 2023
Vedic Texts, Indus Script, Aryan Migration
Nov 30, 2023
Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)
Nov 28, 2023
Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)
Nov 12, 2023
Fabrizio Cariani, "The Modal Future: A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Nov 10, 2023
Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Nov 04, 2023
Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Oct 31, 2023
Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 30, 2023
Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
Oct 19, 2023
Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)
Oct 18, 2023
Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)
Oct 15, 2023
Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Oct 08, 2023
John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)
Oct 05, 2023
Piers Kelly, "The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Sep 19, 2023
A Better Way to Buy Books
Sep 12, 2023
Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India" (Permanent Black, 2023)
Sep 09, 2023
The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
Aug 26, 2023
Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili" (Ohio UP, 2022)
Aug 19, 2023
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Aug 16, 2023
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia
Aug 11, 2023
Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)
Aug 02, 2023
Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan" (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)
Aug 01, 2023
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Jul 31, 2023
Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell" (U Chicago Press, 2017)
Jul 22, 2023
The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad
Jul 22, 2023
Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)
Jul 21, 2023
Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
Jul 13, 2023
The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
Jun 20, 2023
Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
Jun 03, 2023
Nick Enfield on Language, Influence, and Science Communications
Jun 01, 2023
James Paul Gee, "What Is a Human?: Language, Mind, and Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
May 30, 2023
The International Association of Sanskrit Studies
May 10, 2023
Jan Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" (U California Press, 2023)
May 03, 2023
Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
Apr 16, 2023
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Apr 11, 2023
The Evolution of Language
Mar 11, 2023
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)
Mar 04, 2023
The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media
Mar 01, 2023
Thomas Kelly, "Bias: A Philosophical Study" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Mar 01, 2023
Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022)
Feb 25, 2023
Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)
Feb 25, 2023
Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Feb 21, 2023
Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, "Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)
Feb 11, 2023
Timothy Cleveland, "Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable" (Lexington Books, 2022)
Feb 10, 2023
Robert J. Dostal, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Feb 07, 2023
Lois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)
Jan 24, 2023
Dalal Abo El Seoud, "Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)
Jan 18, 2023
Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
Dec 30, 2022
Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)
Dec 25, 2022
The World Sanskrit Conference: A Discussion with McComas Taylor
Dec 16, 2022
Michelle R. Boyd, "Becoming the Writer You Already Are" (Sage, 2022)
Dec 13, 2022
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Dec 12, 2022
Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
Dec 10, 2022
Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
Nov 29, 2022
4.6 Translation is the Closest Way to Read: Ann Goldstein and Saskia Ziolkowski
Nov 18, 2022
Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang, "Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation" (Tilted Axis Press, 2022)
Nov 17, 2022
James Griffiths, "Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language" (Zed Books, 2021)
Nov 15, 2022
Tristan Grøtvedt Haze, "Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity" (Routledge, 2022)
Nov 10, 2022
92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)
Nov 03, 2022
Online Sanskrit Study Resources
Oct 31, 2022
Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Oct 27, 2022
Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)
Oct 21, 2022
Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"
Oct 10, 2022
Carles Prado-Fonts, "Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation" (Northwestern UP, 2022)
Oct 07, 2022
4.3 Strange Beasts of Translation: Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang in Conversation
Oct 06, 2022
Bo Mou, "Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy" (Brill, 2018)
Sep 22, 2022
Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy" (Stanford UP, 2022)
Sep 19, 2022
4.1 “Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”
Sep 08, 2022
Lucía Fernández-Amaya, "A Linguistic Overview of Whatsapp Communication" (Brill, 2022)
Sep 05, 2022
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Sep 01, 2022
Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)
Aug 26, 2022
Michael Sidney Fosberg, "Nobody Wants to Talk about It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations" (Incognito, 2020)
Aug 25, 2022
Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Aug 17, 2022
Giore Etzion, "The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew" (Routledge, 2019)
Jul 22, 2022
Rosemary Salomone, "The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jul 21, 2022
Apabhraṃśa
Jul 08, 2022
Robert McColl Millar, "Sociolinguistic History of Scotland" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)
Jun 15, 2022
Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)
Jun 15, 2022
Welding Technical Communication: Teaching and Learning Embodied Knowledge
Jun 06, 2022
Crosswords
May 31, 2022
Julia Molinari, "What Makes Writing Academic: Rethinking Theory for Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)
May 31, 2022
Should Scholars Trust Machine Translation of their Articles?
May 30, 2022
Kay Muhr and Liam Ó. hAisibéil, "The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
May 27, 2022
Peter Scharf, "Sabdanugamah: Indian Linguistic Studies in Honor of George Cardona; Volume 1: Vyakarana and Sabdabodha" (Sanskrit Library, 2021)
May 26, 2022
Roslyn Petelin, "How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing" (Routledge, 2021)
May 20, 2022
Sofia Stolk, "The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror" (Routledge, 2021)
May 13, 2022
Mónica Guzmán, "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" (BenBella Books, 2022)
May 09, 2022
The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism
May 04, 2022
Hana Videen, "The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English" (Princeton UP, 2022)
May 02, 2022
Zhihui Fang, "Demystifying Academic Writing: Genres, Moves, Skills, and Strategies" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 22, 2022
Yiddish in Europe
Apr 20, 2022
Priyambada Sarkar, "Language, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 20, 2022
Szu-Wen Kung, "Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context" (Routledge, 2021)
Apr 19, 2022
Jennifer Delfino, "Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children" (Lexington Book, 2020)
Apr 18, 2022
Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)
Apr 14, 2022
Ellen Jones, "Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Mar 29, 2022
Jing Tsu, "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
Mar 24, 2022
N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)
Mar 23, 2022
Eliza Jane Smith, "Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France" (Lexington Books, 2021)
Mar 04, 2022
Dennis Duncan, "Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" (W.W. Norton, 2022)
Mar 02, 2022
Mary Norris, "Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen" (Norton, 2020)
Feb 22, 2022
Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021)
Feb 16, 2022
Language Bias: The Last Back Door of Discrimination in America?
Jan 27, 2022
Nigel A. Caplan, "Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers" (U Michigan Press, 2019)
Jan 26, 2022
Matthew C. Watson, "Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker’s Spirit" (Duke UP, 2020)
Jan 21, 2022
N. J. Enfield, "The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Jan 14, 2022
Keith Kahn-Harris, "The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language" (Icon Books, 2021)
Jan 07, 2022
Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science
Dec 31, 2021
From Linear A to Linear B: Suggestive Continuity
Dec 29, 2021
Joyce W. Nutta, "English Learners at Home and at School: Stories and Strategies" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Dec 28, 2021
Sarah and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Tiller Press, 2021)
Dec 23, 2021
Sher Wells-Jensen on the Pitfalls of Linguistics
Dec 23, 2021
Brigid O'Keeffe, "Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 16, 2021
Chun-Yi Peng, "Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions" (Springer, 2021)
Dec 15, 2021
Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton, "Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies" (Fordham UP, 2016)
Dec 14, 2021
Andrew Piper, "Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Dec 14, 2021
Nishaant Choksi, "Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy" (Bloomsbury, 2021)
Dec 08, 2021
James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes, "Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)
Dec 07, 2021
Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World" (MIT Press, 2021)
Nov 26, 2021
Sanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2)
Nov 18, 2021
Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, "Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Nov 11, 2021
Sanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 1)
Nov 11, 2021
Scott Soames, “Appreciating Analytic Philosophy” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Nov 09, 2021
Michele Kennerly, "Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics" (U South Carolina Press, 2018)
Nov 05, 2021
Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)
Oct 29, 2021
Carol Padden, “Sign Language Linguistics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Oct 18, 2021
Antonia M. Ruppel, "An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency" (Brill, 2021)
Oct 14, 2021
Henning Trüper, "Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Oct 06, 2021
James Diggle, "Cambridge Greek Lexicon" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Oct 05, 2021
Sarah Nannery and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
Sep 30, 2021
Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Sep 28, 2021
Martin Jay, “Pants on Fire: On Lying in Politics” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Sep 20, 2021
Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Sep 20, 2021
J. P. M. Drury and S. A. M. Drury, "Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: an American Musical" (Peter Lang, 2021)
Sep 16, 2021
Preserving Local Languages to Protect Cultural and Environmental Rights in Laos
Sep 16, 2021
Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)
Sep 15, 2021
Alex Poole, "Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
Sep 09, 2021
William Duffy, "Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2021)
Sep 03, 2021
Sarah Bunin Benor et al., "Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
Sep 02, 2021
Nicholas Harkness, "Glossolalia and the Problem of Language" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Aug 24, 2021
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names" (Pantheon, 2021)
Aug 18, 2021
Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Aug 16, 2021
Maïa Ponsonnet, "Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions" (Routledge, 2019)
Aug 12, 2021
Helen Sword, "The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose" (U Chicago Press, 2016)
Aug 06, 2021
Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine, "Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
Aug 03, 2021
Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Aug 02, 2021
Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)
Jul 26, 2021
Ellen Bialystok, “The Psychology of Bilingualism” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 21, 2021
Christina R. Foust et al., "What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics" (U Alabama Press, 2017)
Jul 16, 2021
Yurou Zhong, "Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jul 15, 2021
David Bellos, “Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized” (Open Agenda, 2021)
Jul 15, 2021
Richard Scholar, "Émigrés: French Words That Turned English" (Princeton UP, 2020)
Jul 15, 2021
Leonard Greenspoon, "Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)
Jul 09, 2021
Nathan R. Johnson, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Jul 06, 2021
Zoë Slatoff-Ponté, "Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga" (North Point Press, 2015)
Jul 01, 2021
Susan E. Kirtley, "Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips" (Ohio State UP, 2021)
Jun 25, 2021
Eviatar Zerubavel, "Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable" (Princeton UP, 2018)
Jun 15, 2021
Mona Simion, "Shifty Speech and Independent Thought: Epistemic Normativity in Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Jun 10, 2021
Robert C. Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)
Jun 10, 2021
Iain McGee, "Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing" (Equinox, 2018)
Jun 08, 2021
James Fredal, "The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric" (Penn State UP, 2020)
May 31, 2021
Climate Denialism and Propaganda with Catriona McKinnon
May 18, 2021
Ken Hyland, "Second Language Writing" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
May 18, 2021
Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Apr 21, 2021
Ralph Keyes, "The Hidden History of Coined Words" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Apr 15, 2021
Joshua Gunn, "Political Perversion: Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering" (U of Chicago Press, 2020)
Apr 14, 2021
Political Rhetoric and Demagoguery with Jennifer Mercieca
Apr 13, 2021
Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)
Apr 07, 2021
Christopher Joby, "The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan" (Brill, 2020)
Apr 01, 2021
Joan Turner, "On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Mar 31, 2021
Karen Stollznow, "On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Mar 24, 2021
Kamran Khan, "Becoming a Citizen: Linguistic Trials and Negotiations in the UK" (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019)
Mar 23, 2021
Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Mar 22, 2021
Gert-Jan van der Heiden, "The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony" (SUNY Press, 2020)
Mar 18, 2021
Stephen Pihlaja, "Talk about Faith: How Debate and Conversation Shape Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Mar 16, 2021
Shonna Trinch and Edward Snajdr, "What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn" (Vanderbilt UP, 2020)
Mar 01, 2021
Writing in Disciplines: A Discussion with Shyam Sharma
Feb 24, 2021
I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)
Feb 23, 2021
Leon S. Brenner, "The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Feb 17, 2021
Wesley C. Robertson, "Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese" (Routledge, 2020)
Jan 29, 2021
Daniel Oberhaus, "Extraterrestrial Languages" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 06, 2021
Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts, "Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging" (MIT Press, 2019)
Jan 05, 2021
Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (Routledge, 2020)
Jan 04, 2021
Catharine Abell, "Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Dec 04, 2020
Leigh Thompson, "Negotiating the Sweet Spot: The Art of Leaving Nothing on the Table" (HarperCollins, 2020)
Dec 03, 2020
J. S. Sutton and M. L. Mifsud, "A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric" (Lexington Books, 2015)
Nov 24, 2020
Marco Ferrante, "Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self" (Routledge, 2020)
Nov 24, 2020
Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
Oct 29, 2020
Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 28, 2020
Gregory Forth, "A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019)
Oct 23, 2020
Chris Heffer, "All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Oct 08, 2020
EQ Spotlight Special: Roundtable on the 2020 Presidential Race
Oct 02, 2020
Sarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
Sep 22, 2020
Katherine Kinzler, "How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do - And What It Says About You" (HMH, 2020)
Sep 11, 2020
B. Cope and M. Kalantzis, "Making Sense: Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Sep 09, 2020
Marco Puleri, "Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics" (Peter Lang, 2020)
Sep 02, 2020
Alessandro Graheli, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language" (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Sep 01, 2020
Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: 'The Course in General Linguistics' after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
Aug 20, 2020
Allison L. Rowland, "Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Aug 19, 2020
Nate Marshall, "Finna: Poems" (One World, 2020)
Aug 11, 2020
David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America" (U Colorado Press, 2017)
Aug 06, 2020
Linda Goddard, "Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin" (Yale UP, 2019)
Jul 31, 2020
Pritipuspa Mishra, "Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-1953" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 29, 2020
Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought" (Columbia UP, 2019)
Jul 17, 2020
Brian F. Harrison, "A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 16, 2020
Melissa K. Merry, "Warped Narratives: Distortion in the Framing of Gun Policy" (U Michigan Press, 2020)
Jul 10, 2020
Gina Anne Tam, "Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
Jul 07, 2020
Ruth Leys, "The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique" (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
Jul 06, 2020
Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Jul 01, 2020
D. Conley and J. Eckstein, "Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production" (U Alabama Press, 2020)
Jun 30, 2020
David R. Grimes, "The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk, and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)
Jun 11, 2020
Luke Winslow, "American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump" (Ohio State UP, 2020)
Jun 10, 2020
Jay Timothy Dolmage, "Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race" (OSU Press, 2018)
Jun 08, 2020
Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam, "Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship" (Ohio State UP, 2019)
Jun 03, 2020
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
Jun 02, 2020
A. M. Ruppel, "Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
May 27, 2020
Thomas A. Discenna, "Discourses of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor" (Routledge, 2017)
May 27, 2020
Jennifer Mercieca, "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)
May 27, 2020
Diana Senechal, "Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
May 25, 2020
James M. Jasper, "Public Characters: The Politics of Reputation and Blame" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 22, 2020
E. Michele Ramsey, "Major Decisions: College, Career, and the Case for the Humanities" (U Penn Press, 2019)
May 13, 2020
John R. Gallagher, "Update Culture and the Afterlife of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)
May 11, 2020
J. Packer and E. Stoneman, "A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2019)
May 06, 2020
M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)
May 04, 2020
Adam J. MacLeod, "The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal" (Rowland and Littlefield, 2020)
Apr 30, 2020
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
Apr 28, 2020
Chelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)
Apr 09, 2020
Amy Koerber, “From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History" (Penn State UP, 2018)
Apr 07, 2020
Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)
Mar 30, 2020
Andrew Ollett, "Language of the Snakes" (U California Press, 2017)
Mar 19, 2020
Cosmopolitan Printing in a Hybrid Language: A Discussion of the Sino-Malay Literary Tradition (1870-1949) with Dr Tom Hoogervorst
Mar 18, 2020
Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She" (Liveright, 2020)
Mar 17, 2020
Elise Berman, "Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Mar 02, 2020
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
Feb 25, 2020
Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 06, 2020
David Adger, "Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Feb 04, 2020
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Jan 30, 2020
Eleanor Gordon-Smith, "Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds" (PublicAffairs, 2019)
Jan 29, 2020
H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right" (Peter Lang, 2019)
Jan 02, 2020
Timothy J. Shaffer, "A Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and its Discontents" (Routledge, 2019)
Dec 16, 2019
Céline Carayon, "Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas" (UNC Press, 2019)
Dec 12, 2019
Alexandra D'Arcy, "Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE" (John Benjamins, 2017)
Dec 04, 2019
Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)
Dec 03, 2019
Patricia Roberts-Miller, "Demagoguery and Democracy" (The Experiment, 2017)
Nov 25, 2019
Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)
Nov 19, 2019
Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Nov 04, 2019
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
Nov 03, 2019
Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polity, 2019)
Oct 25, 2019
J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)
Oct 24, 2019
Don Kulick, "A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea" (Algonquin Books, 2019)
Oct 07, 2019
Malcolm Keating, "Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy" (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Sep 20, 2019
Jonathan G. Kline, "Keep Up Your Biblical Greek in 2 Minutes a Day" (Hendrickson, 2017)
Aug 13, 2019
Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jun 21, 2019
Sharon Kirsch, "Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2014)
Jun 17, 2019
Derek Gaunt, "Ego, Authority, Failure: Using Emotional Intelligence Like a Hostage Negotiator to Succeed as a Leader" (New Degree Press, 2019)
Jun 13, 2019
Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research" (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019)
Jun 04, 2019
Mary Kate McGowan, "Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm" (Oxford UP, 2019)
May 31, 2019
John Pat Leary, "Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2019)
May 28, 2019
Donnel Stern, "The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal" (Routledge, 2019)
May 15, 2019
A. M. Ruppell, "The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
May 01, 2019
Shonaleeka Kaul, "The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini" (Oxford UP, 2018)
Apr 11, 2019
Leslie Hahner, "To Become an American: Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the Early 20th Century" (Michigan State UP, 2017)
Apr 05, 2019
Anne Cheng, "Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Mar 25, 2019
Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing
Mar 19, 2019
Richard Salomon, "The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation" (Wisdom Publications, 2018)
Mar 01, 2019
Bradford Vivian, "Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Feb 27, 2019
Richard Gombrich, "Buddhism and Pali" (Mud Pie Slices, 2018)
Feb 06, 2019
McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)
Dec 06, 2018
Mark Polizzotti, “Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto” (MIT Press, 2018)
Nov 14, 2018
Matthieu Villatte, “Mastering the Clinical Conversation: Language as Intervention” (Guilford Press, 2015)
Nov 13, 2018
J.R. Osborn, “Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 12, 2018
Allyson Jule, “Speaking Up: Understanding Language and Gender” (Multilingual Matters, 2018)
Sep 28, 2018
J. Lester, C. Lochmiller, and R. Gabriel, “Discursive Perspectives on Education Policy and Implementation” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Sep 13, 2018
Steven Alvarez, “Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies” (SUNY Press, 2018)
Aug 14, 2018
John H. McWhorter, “The Creole Debate” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Aug 14, 2018
Steven Gimbel, “Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy” (Routledge, 2018)
Aug 06, 2018
Andrii Danylenko, “From the Bible to Shakespeare: Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819-1897) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian” (Academic Studies Press, 2016)
Jun 27, 2018
Steven Alvarez, “Community Literacies en Confianza: Learning From Bilingual After-School Programs” (NCTE, 2017)
Jun 25, 2018
Ji-Yeon O. Jo, “Homing: An Affective Topography of Ethnic Korean Return Migration” (U Hawaii Press, 2018)
May 31, 2018
Rosina Lozano, “An American Language: The History of Spanish in the United States” (U California Press, 2018)
May 28, 2018
Roderick P. Hart, “Civic Hope: How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
May 24, 2018
Ruth G. Millikan, “Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information” (Oxford UP, 2018)
May 15, 2018
Walter N. Hakala, “Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the Definition of Modern South Asia” (Columbia UP, 2016)
May 02, 2018
Jeanine Kraybill, “Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric: How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
Apr 03, 2018
Daniel J. Kapust, “Flattery and the History of Political Thought: That Glib and Oily Art” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Mar 29, 2018
Cynthia Baker, “Jew” (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Mar 07, 2018
Kathryn Woolard, “Singular and Plural: Ideologies of Linguistic Authority in Twenty-First Century Catalonia” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Mar 06, 2018
Karen Neander, “A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics” (MIT Press, 2017)
Feb 15, 2018
Public Debate and Respectful Engagement with John Corvino
Jan 25, 2018
Testimony and Anonymity with Sandy Goldberg
Dec 28, 2017
Mario Luis Small, “Someone to Talk To” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Dec 19, 2017
Sarah Rivett, “Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Nov 27, 2017
Ian Brodie, “A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy” (UP of Mississippi, 2014).
Nov 20, 2017
Stephanie Brookes, “Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia’s Identity Anxiety” (Anthem Press, 2017)
Nov 12, 2017
Michael Flier and Andrea Graziosi, eds. “The Battle for Ukrainian: A Comparative Perspective” (Harvard UP, 2017)
Nov 11, 2017
Kristian Petersen, “Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitab” (Oxford UP, 2017)
Nov 10, 2017
Free Speech and Free Thinking with Seana Shiffrin
Oct 19, 2017
Bruce B. Lawrence, “The Koran in English: A Biography” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Oct 16, 2017
Alessandro Duranti, “The Anthropology of Intentions: Language in a World of Others” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Sep 26, 2017
Karmen MacKendrick, “The Matter of Voice: Sensual Soundings” (Fordham UP, 2016)
Aug 19, 2017
Good & Bad Arguments with Trudy Govier
Jun 28, 2017
Kees van Deemter, “Computational Models of Referring: A Study in Cognitive Science” (MIT Press, 2016)
Jun 22, 2017
Sarah Ruden, “The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty and Meaning in the Bible” (Pantheon, 2017)
May 17, 2017
Lewis Glinert, “The Story of Hebrew” (Princeton UP, 2017)
Apr 11, 2017
Free Speech Matters with Robert George
Apr 05, 2017
Audrey Truschke, “Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court” (Columbia UP, 2016)
Apr 03, 2017
Telesphore Ngarambe, “Practical Challenges in Customary Law Translation: The Case of Rwanda’s Gacaca Law” (OSSREA, 2015)
Feb 06, 2017
Dovid Katz, “Yiddish and Power” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Jan 18, 2017
Matthew Pauly, “Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine, 1923-1934” (U. of Toronto Press, 2014)
Nov 15, 2016
Jennifer Glaser, “Borrowed Voices: Writing and Racial Ventriloquism in the Jewish American Imagination” (Rutgers UP, 2016)
Nov 07, 2016
Sali Tagliamonte, “Teen Talk: The Language of Adolescents” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
Sep 26, 2016
Ellen Mayock, “Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
Sep 13, 2016
Ingrid Piller, “Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice: An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics” (Oxford UP, 2016)
Aug 03, 2016
Simon Critchley, “ABC of Impossibility” (Univocal Publishing, 2015)
Mar 07, 2016
Prakash Mondal, “Language, Mind and Computation” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Feb 17, 2016
Aviya Kushner, “The Grammar of God: A Journey into the Words and Worlds of the Bible” (Spiegel and Grau, 2015)
Feb 16, 2016
Kenneth L. Marcus, “The Definition of Anti-Semitism” (Oxford UP, 2015)
Nov 12, 2015
Geoffrey Sampson, “Writing Systems” (Equinox, 2015)
Nov 08, 2015
Kate Pahl, “Materializing Literacies in Communities: The Uses of Literacy Revisited” (Bloomsbury, 2014)
Oct 06, 2015
Liora R. Halperin, “Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948” (Yale UP, 2014)
Sep 10, 2015
Chad Engelland, “Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind” (MIT Press, 2015)
Aug 14, 2015
James Turner, “Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities” (Princeton University Press, 2014)
Aug 10, 2015
Asya Pereltsvaig and Martin Lewis, “The Indo-European Controversy: Facts and Fallacies in Historical Linguistics” (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Jul 21, 2015
Colin McGinn, “Philosophy of Language: the Classics Explained” (MIT Press, 2015)
May 28, 2015
Naomi S. Baron, “Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World” (Oxford UP, 2015)
May 01, 2015
Jason Stanley, “How Propaganda Works” (Princeton UP, 2015)
May 01, 2015
Pieter Seuren, “From Whorf to Montague: Explorations in the Theory of Language” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Mar 18, 2015
Seana Shiffrin, “Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law” (Princeton UP, 2014)
Mar 02, 2015
Terence Cuneo, “Speech and Morality: On the Metaethical Implications of Speaking” (Oxford,
Jan 01, 2015
Daniel Cloud, “The Domestication of Language” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Dec 16, 2014
Thom Scott-Phillips, “Speaking Our Minds” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Dec 13, 2014
Anne Curzan, “Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Sep 29, 2014
Ruth Finnegan, “Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Communication” (Routledge, 2014)
Sep 14, 2014
Julia Sallabank, “Attitudes to Endangered Languages: Identities and Policies” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Aug 10, 2014
John H. McWhorter, “The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jul 18, 2014
Ian Haney Lopez, “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class” (Oxford UP, 2014)
Jun 30, 2014
Peter Gardenfors, “The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces” (MIT Press, 2014)
Jun 09, 2014
David Adger, “A Syntax of Substance” (MIT Press, 2013)
Apr 26, 2014
Vershawn Young et al., “Other People’s English” (Teacher’s College Press, 2013)
Apr 15, 2014
Aneta Pavlenko, “The Bilingual Mind And What It Tells Us about Language and Thought” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
Mar 29, 2014
Andrea Bachner, “Beyond Sinology: Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture” (Columbia UP, 2014)
Mar 23, 2014
Alistair Knott, “Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax” (MIT Press, 2012)
Jan 28, 2014
David Bleich, “The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics and the University” (Indiana UP, 2013)
Nov 07, 2013
Rodney H. Jones, “Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective” (Routledge, 2013)
Sep 25, 2013
Mikhail Kissine, “From Utterances to Speech Acts” (Cambridge UP, 2013)
Sep 14, 2013
Jody Azzouni, “Semantic Perception: How the Illusion of a Common Language Arises and Persists” (Oxford UP, 2013)
Sep 01, 2013
Anne Cutler, “Native Listening: Language Experience and the Recognition of Spoken Words” (MIT Press, 2012)
Jul 01, 2013
Patrick Hanks, “Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations” (MIT Press, 2013)
Jun 10, 2013
Stephen Crain, “The Emergence of Meaning” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
May 30, 2013
John E. Joseph, “Saussure” (Oxford UP, 2012)
May 20, 2013
Perry Link, “An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics” (Harvard UP, 2013)
May 13, 2013
Jonathan Bobaljik, “Universals of Comparative Morphology” (MIT Press, 2012)
May 06, 2013
Stephen E. Nadeau, “The Neural Architecture of Grammar” (MIT Press, 2012)
Apr 13, 2013
Stanley Dubinsky and Chris Holcomb, “Understanding Language Through Humor” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Mar 15, 2013
Elly van Gelderen, “The Linguistic Cycle: Language Change and the Language Faculty” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Mar 01, 2013
Willem J. M. Levelt, “A History of Psycholinguistics: The Pre-Chomskyan Era” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Feb 19, 2013
Nick J. Enfield, “The Anatomy of Meaning: Speech, Gesture, and Composite Utterances” (Cambridge UP, 2012)
Jan 16, 2013
James R. Hurford, “The Origins of Grammar (Language in the Light of Evolution, Vol. 2)” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Dec 21, 2012
James R. Hurford, “The Origins of Meaning (Language in Light of Evolution, Vol. 1)” (Oxford UP, 2007)
Dec 16, 2012
Tony Veale, “Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012)
Dec 03, 2012
Peter Trudgill, “Sociolinguistic Typology: Social Determinants of Linguistic Complexity” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Nov 18, 2012
Avner Baz, “When Words Are Called For: A Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy” (Harvard University Press, 2012)
Oct 31, 2012
Joshua Miller, “Accented America: The Cultural Politics of Multilingual Modernism” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Oct 10, 2012
Sherry Simon, “Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory” (Routledge, 2012)
Aug 22, 2012
Bart Geurts, “Quantity Implicatures” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Jul 24, 2012
Sam Leith, “Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama” (Basic Books, 2012)
Jul 03, 2012
Alexander Maxwell, “Choosing Slovakia: Slavic Hungary, the Czechoslovak Language, and Accidental Nationalism” (Tauris Academic Studies, 2009)
Jun 15, 2012
Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin, “Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
Jun 08, 2012
Margaret Thomas, “Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics” (Routledge, 2011)
May 21, 2012
Tore Janson, “The History of Languages: An Introduction” (Oxford UP, 2012)
Apr 16, 2012
Jeanne Fahnestock, “Rhetorical Style: The Uses of Language in Persuasion” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Mar 15, 2012
Robert F. Barsky and Noam Chomsky, “Zellig Harris: From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism” (MIT Press, 2011)
Mar 07, 2012
Julie Sedivy and Greg Carlson, “Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says About You” (Wiley, 2011)
Feb 24, 2012
Theo van Leeuwen, “The Language of Colour: An Introduction” (Routledge, 2011)
Feb 10, 2012
Jonathan Green, “Green’s Dictionary of Slang” (Hodder Education, 2010)
Jan 26, 2012
Keith Gilyard, “True to the Language Game: African American Discourse, Cultural Politics, and Pedagogy” (Routledge, 2011)
Dec 22, 2011
Debra Aarons, “Jokes and the Linguistic Mind” (Routledge, 2011)
Dec 01, 2011
Neil Smith, et al., “The Signs of a Savant: Language Against the Odds” (Cambridge UP, 2011)
Nov 15, 2011
Peter Ludlow, “The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Nov 15, 2011
Ron Christie, “Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur” (Thomas Dunne Books, 2010)
Sep 26, 2011
Adam Hodges, “The ‘War on Terror’ Narrative” (Oxford UP, 2011)
Sep 06, 2011
David Crystal, “Just a Phrase I’m Going Through: My Life in Language” (Routledge, 2009)
Aug 15, 2011
Robert Lane Greene, “You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws and the Politics of Identity” (Delacorte Press, 2011)
Jul 11, 2011