Cult Classic
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Amanda Montell about her newest book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, out June 15, 2021, how cults use language to entice and keep followers and why cul...
14 Jun 20211h
Accent-uate Your Performance
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Erik Singer, dialect coach to the stars, about what dialect coaches do, how to become one, and his strategies for teaching different accents to actors. Chec...
31 Mai 202153min
Hypocritical Oath
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Dr. Elena Costello Tzintzun, a newly-minted PhD, about the importance of using heritage language learners as healthcare interpreters and healthcare accessib...
17 Mai 202152min
Bean Discourse
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Jaya Saxena, Staff Writer at Eater about her piece The Limits of the Lunchbox Moment and the way we talk about food and why it matters. Transcript We're an ...
28 Apr 202158min
Jamaalapalooza
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Jamaal Muwwakkil, PhD candidate in Linguistics at the University of Santa Barbara about African American English and racial justice in university and commun...
12 Apr 202153min
I Have So Many Questions
Send us Fan Mail April Fools! But it's the good kind of prank. Today we're participating in Operation Switcheroo, where podcasts hosts share their feed with a similar show to help grow our audiences...
1 Apr 202132min
Standardized Language Ideology
Send us Fan Mail Megan and Carrie talk with Drs Gaillynn Clements, Visiting Assistant Professor in Linguistics at Duke University, and Marnie Jo Petray, Associate Professor in TESOL at Slippery Rock U...
29 Mar 202157min
Use People's Pronouns
Send us Fan Mail Carrie and Megan talk with Ártemis López about queer and trans translation and interpretation, indirect and direct non-binary language and Spanish non-binary morphemes. On the word we...
28 Feb 202157min
