Linguistics Behind the Scenes
Linguistics Behind the Scenes
Podcast Description
This podcast is for everyone who enjoys or even loves language.
Have you ever wondered why we speak or write like that? And how we can find out what is usual, "right" or "wrong" in language use?
Then join linguistics professor Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer and linguistics enthusiast Dominic Piazza on a backstage tour of linguistic research as they engage in entertaining chats about all the many fun and interesting aspects of language.
Visit our website:
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/edling/sciencecommunication/podcast.php
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Content Themes
The show delves into diverse linguistic themes including language usage, the impact of historical events on language, and societal influences on linguistic expression, with episodes exploring topics such as preserving Holocaust survivor testimonies, analyzing words for intoxication like 'drunkonyms', and the linguistic effects of popular culture phenomena such as Star Wars.
This podcast is for everyone who enjoys or even loves language.
Have you ever wondered why we speak or write like that? And how we can find out what is usual, “right” or “wrong” in language use?
Then join linguistics professor Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer and linguistics enthusiast Dominic Piazza on a backstage tour of linguistic research as they engage in entertaining chats about all the many fun and interesting aspects of language.
Visit our website:
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/edling/sciencecommunication/podcast.php
In this punctuation-packed episode of Linguistics Behind the Scenes, Christina and Dominic explore how language varies depending on communicative context – and why tiny marks on a page can make all the difference between various types of texts.
– Why can using the wrong “you” in German ruin a party?
– What makes Chinese characters different from alphabetic writing?
– What happens when you delete all the letters in a text and study only its punctuation?
– How do comics and research papers use punctuation marks in highly specific ways?
From Superman to semicolons, from Batman to Biber’s register theory, our hosts uncover how grammar, punctuation, and social context weave together – showing that meaning isn’t just in what we say, but also in how, where, and to whom we say it.
Full episode transcript available here:
https://www.tu-chemnitz.de/phil/english/sections/edling/sciencecommunication/podcast-transcripts.php#Episode24
Read the full article for more details:
Sanchez-Stockhammer, Christina. 2019. Present-day English hyphenation: Historical origin, functions and pragmatics. In Claudia Claridge & Merja Kytö (eds.), Punctuation in context – Past and present perspectives, 47-65. Berlin: Peter Lang.
Mentioned in this episode:
Douglas Biber & Susan Conrad. 2012. Register, Genre, and Style. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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