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:
2009-11-14 What's in a name?
Published: 2009-11-13 09:00:00In many languages, the names used for adults are based on the names of their oldest child. Carol Priestley tells about how naming practices work in one such tongue, Koromu, a Madang language from Papua New Guinea.
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2009-11-07 Does language loss really matter?
Published: 2009-11-06 09:00:00Proceeding from the mythical moment when the confusion of a multitude of tongues began, in the Biblical tower of Babel, a query into the usual set of assumptions on language loss, asking the hard question: does it really matter?
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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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