231. Lingthusionist
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Helen Zaltzman chats with linguistics professor Lauren Gawne about language, podcasting, and the quirks of linguistics research.
“Linguistics and language is such a good mechanism for being curious,” says Lauren Gawne , linguistics prof, author of the book Gesture: A Slim Guide , and cohost of the podcast Lingthusiasm. I'm in vacation mode (although not on actual vacation alas), so today's episode is a fun chat with our nice pal about making language podcasts, the firey digestive punishments for linguistics researchers, working in reality television, and cute tame nouns versus scary intimidating verbs. There's a longer version of this conversation available for free over on Lingthusiasm’s Patreon, patreon.com/lingthusiasm, including Lauren explaining how she broke a famous linguistic theory. Listen to Lingthusiasm in the pod places and at lingthusiasm.com . Content note: this episode contains one category A swear and a category B swear. Visit theallusionist.org/lingthusionist for a transcript and links to various topics mentioned in the episode. Sign up at theallusionist.org/donate to fund the continuing existence of this independent podcast. In return, you can join me for regular livestreams where I read relaxingly from my ever-expanding collection of vintage dictionaries, plus…
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