Lingua Franca Podcast
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Lingua Franca, presented by Richard Buckham, looks at all aspects of language: language old, modern, and even invented. Through interviews and prepared talks, the program features experts who analyse a single topic of interest to users and lovers of language. Examples of the sort of linguistic territory they traverse are: bi-lingual education, ebonics, the language of pornography, and the political use of words. Lingua Franca is published every Saturday.
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2009-11-21 Wordwatching
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Nov 21, 2009
The amateur philologist and Queen's Counsel Julian Burnside reads a selection of excerpts from the new, revised and expanded edition of his book on language.
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2009-11-14 What's in a name?
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Nov 14, 2009
In many languages, the names used for adults are based on the names of their oldest child.
Carol Priestley tells about how naming practices work in one such tongue, Koromu, a Madang language from Papua New Guinea (which is also known as 'Kesawai').
This is an reworked version of a paper that Dr Priestley first presented at the 'Cross-culturally speaking, speaking cross-culturally' conference, held at Macquarie University earlier this year.
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2009-11-07 Does language loss really matter?
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Nov 07, 2009
Proceeding from the mythical moment when the confusion of a multitude of tongues began, in the Biblical tower of Babel, a query into the usual set of assumptions on language loss, asking the hard question: does it really matter?
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2009-10-31 Words and language; truth and lies
Author: ABC Radio National
Sat, Oct 31, 2009
As an `amateur philologist´, Queen's Counsel Julian Burnside, makes a case for using language that is true to our meaning, rather than the doublespeak of so much public communication that either blurs to conceal or is so abstract as to be meaningless.
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