The Book Club: How to Kill a Language
About this episode
Sophia Smith-Galer discusses her book on the rapid disappearance of languages and the importance of preserving them.
My guest on this week’s Book Club podcast is Sophia Smith-Galer, talking about her new book How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words . Sophia tells me why languages are vanishing faster than ever before, why it matters, how we can resist it and what her Italian-born nonna gave her. Visit fleetstreetquarter.co.uk to book your tickets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: The Spectator
Guest: Sophia Smith-Galer
Topics covered
- language preservation
- cultural identity
- literature
- interview
- sociolinguistics
Keywords
- language
- preservation
- cultural identity
- interview
- literature
- sociolinguistics
- Sophia Smith-Galer
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The Spectator
Books & works: How to Kill a Language: Power, Resistance, and the Race to Save Our Words
Places: Italy
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