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Bonus 11: We are all linguistic geniuses - Communicating linguistics interview with Daniel Midgley of Talk the Talk

Added 2018-01-11 20:56:15 +0000 UTC

We're excited to be part of the broader linguistics podcast community and bring you behind the scenes on other shows!

In this interview, Lauren sat down with Daniel Midgley of the Talk the Talk radio show/podcast to talk about how Daniel got into linguistics, what linguists and radio producers have in common, his favourite linguistics resources, and how linguists can be better at engaging with the media and the public.

Lauren and Daniel got to hang out as part of the workshop 'Talking the Talkley' that Lauren organized for the Australian Linguistics Society annual conference in December (the Talkley is the ALS award for communicating linguistics, a pun on the Walkley awards for Australian journalism).

Talking the Talkley workshop summary:

The rise of ‘on demand’ media like podcasts and content platforms like The Conversation means that linguists are able to share their expert knowledge with a wider audience than ever before. This workshop brings together people who have worked to bring linguistics into the popular consciousness in different media.

Daniel also did an interview with Lauren for Talk the Talk's Patreon, which you can watch here if you're a patron of them as well!

Gretchen and Lauren also organized a panel about Linguistics in the Public Ear panel at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in January, which we'll have details about in another update. It was great to meet so many Lingthusiasm listeners and hear about how the podcast has become part of your lives and teaching materials at both of these conferences!

Links

Talking the Talkley workshop full abstract
Talking the Talkley livetweets
Talk the Talk episode about the Bixby letter
Google ngrams viewer
Etymonline.com
Lingthusiasm bonus episode about DIY linguistic research
International Linguistics Olympiad
Daniel's paper on capsicum/capsicun (blog post, slides PDF)

You can listen to this episode on this page, via the Patreon RSS or download the mp3. A transcript is available for this episode as a Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page.

Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our producer is Claire Gawne and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.