The Weekend Listener is a monthly list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. For more listening tips please search the website for previous instalments. LANGUAGE Language Carries More Than Words This episode of the On Being radio series is a wonderful interview with the writer David Treuer. …
The Weekend Listener #18
The Weekend Listener is a monthly list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. For more listening tips please search the website for previous instalments. LANGUAGE The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Edward Sapir, American anthropologist and linguist Also known as the hypothesis of linguistic relativity, the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis posits that …
Exploring Old-Time Radio
Before there was cable, satellite and terrestrial television, radio reigned supreme as the main source of entertainment. Families would gather round their radio receivers to tune into broadcasts, typically in the evening hours, which largely replaced fireside readings and other forms of home entertainment popular before the advent of the electronic media. The golden age …
The Weekend Listener #17
The Weekend Listener is a monthly list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. For more listening tips please search the website for previous instalments. LANGUAGE How language affects thought Photo by David Cassolato on Pexels.com Do people who speak different languages think differently? Is there evidence for …
The Weekend Listener #16
The Weekend Listener is an eclectic list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. For more listening tips please search the website for previous instalments. LANGUAGE How language influences identity and culture Kirk Gallardo is a linguist and the Education Interpretation Manager at the Anchorage Museum. In this …
The Weekend Listener #15
The Weekend Listener is an eclectic list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. For more listening tips please search the website for previous instalments. LANGUAGE Idioms Idioms are a very peculiar feature of ‘natural language’. Defying the rules of syntax and semantics, they usually don't make much …
The Weekend Listener #14: End-of-Year Review (2022)
At the very end of 2022, in this post I will present an overview of all the podcasts included in the The Weekend Listener series throughout the past year. In case you’ve missed any of the previous instalments, you’ll find all the listening tips here below, sorted by the following categories: language literature learning English …
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The Weekend Listener #13
The Weekend Listener is an eclectic weekly list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. Posts in this series are published on Fridays – please search the website for the previous instalments. LANGUAGE Science Diction | Language Evolves: It’s Literally Fine Photo by Snapwire on Pexels.com Language constantly …
The Weekend Listener #11
The Weekend Listener is an eclectic weekly list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. Posts in this series are published on Fridays – please search the website for the previous instalments. LANGUAGE Stuff You Missed in History Class | L. L. Zamenhof and the Hope of Esperanto …
The Weekend Listener #10
The Weekend Listener is an eclectic weekly list of noteworthy podcasts and radio recordings, old and new, curated for your listening pleasure. Posts in this series are published on Fridays – please search the website for the previous instalments. LANGUAGE The Allusionist | Toki Pona Toki Pona flag Learning a new language is always a …