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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Aboriginal English
Sat, Jan 21, 2012
[Please note: this program was first broadcast 3/12/2011]
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Gender assignment in French
Sat, Jan 14, 2012
An explanation for why words are assigned either masculine or feminine gender in the French language.
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Translation as refraction
Sat, Jan 07, 2012
Translating literature from one language into another can be likened to the process of the refraction of light, changing qualities such as colour, speed and direction into another array of features, as Valerie Henitiuk tells, as well as about a translated collection of stories written by women from Orissa, India.
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Talking Turkish in Germany
Sat, Dec 31, 2011
Young people who are not Turkish, nor learning Turkish formally, are talking to each other in Turkish in Germany as Peter Auer discovered.
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Unspeakable testimonies
Sat, Dec 24, 2011
Many of those who survived the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda feel both a desire and a duty to tell their story. But how do they put into words the experiences they have been through?
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Joking linguistically
Sat, Dec 17, 2011
Jokes—language jokes—indicate just how well we all know how language works, as well as being extremely useful devices, it turns out, for explicating linguistical features, according to Debra Aarons who has written a very amusing book on the topic.
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Word-nik
Sat, Dec 10, 2011
Erin McKean knew that she wanted to be a lexicographer from the age of eight and has been living her ambition these past 20 years, as well as having founded the online dictionary Wordnik, which is touted as 'the most comprehensive English dictionary in the world'.
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Aboriginal English
Sat, Dec 03, 2011
[Please note: this program was first broadcast 3/12/2011]
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Linguistic diversity in last words and farewells
Sat, Nov 26, 2011
A description of how three different languages—Serbian, Welsh and German—were used in the funeral services of bilingual people; and an exploration of the language decisions made in this context.
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Canadian English
Sat, Nov 19, 2011
Canada has its own variant of English. Joe Clark, describes its distinctive features.
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Use of kinship terms as forms of address in Chinese culture
Sat, Nov 12, 2011
John Wakefield describes, in cultural terms, the relevance of how Hong Kong Cantonese speakers teach their children to use kinship terms in forms of address.
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You, you, and you
Sat, Nov 05, 2011
In English, there is pretty much only one way to say 'you', encompassing both singular and plural, used in both formal and familiar circumstances, when addressing older and younger people, as well as both strangers and intimates.
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