Lingua Franca
Lingua Franca, presented by Richard Buckham, looks at all aspects of language: language old, modern, and even invented. Through interviews and prepared talks, the program features experts who analyse a single topic of interest to users and lovers of language. Examples of the sort of linguistic territory they traverse are: bi-lingual education, ebonics, the language of pornography, and the political use of words. Lingua Franca is published every Saturday.
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4 Episodes of this Podcast:
2009-10-31 Words and language; truth and lies
Published: 2009-10-30 10:00:00As an `amateur philologist´, Queen's Counsel Julian Burnside, makes a case for using language that is true to our meaning, rather than the doublespeak of so much public communication that either blurs to conceal or is so abstract as to be meaningless.
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2009-10-24 How about an everyday lingua franca for the world?
Published: 2009-10-23 10:00:00Valerie Yule makes a case for all of us to, in free-form fashion, use our capacities to communicate internationally, and create for ourselves an international pidgin.
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2009-10-17 From the lips of children
Published: 2009-10-16 10:00:00Whereas the mission stations set up for the settlement of Australian Aborigines typically resulted in the loss of Indigenous languages, it seems that last century the children living at the Mt Margaret mission in south-central Australia serendipitously strengthened the Western Desert language Wangatha by creating an amalgam of local dialects, the use of which is an important marker of Aboriginality today.
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2009-10-10 'A peculiar language'
Published: 2009-10-09 10:00:00A version of Monash University´s annual Language and Society Centre public lecture, delivered on Thursday, October 8, from Professor Kate Burridge, on the peculiar language that was early Australian English and based on `verbatim´ police reports from the 1850s.
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