Lexicon Valley
Summary: Lexicon Valley is a podcast about language, from pet peeves, syntax, and etymology to neurolinguistics and the death of languages. Hosted by linguist John McWhorter.
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- Copyright: 2018 The Slate Group
Podcasts:
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what malapropisms might reveal about the way we organize our mental dictionary.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the commonly held belief that some languages are spoken faster than others.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk to linguist Geoffrey Nunberg about his book Ascent of the A-word: A**holism, the First Sixty Years.
Mike announces a run of all new episodes beginning later in the summer.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what we lose when a language goes extinct.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the historical present.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss stylometry.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo talk about how Mad Men and Downton Abbey can teach us about language change.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the Gettysburg Address.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the most significant change to the English language that you've never heard of.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the he said/she said of the epicene pronoun.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss how a simple quirk of grammar may affect the way we think.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss what it means for language to have gender.
Bob Garfield and Mike Vuolo discuss the big ambitions of the word "so."
Mike announces a batch of brand new episodes.
