Language and Linguistics Podcast (Successor to "World in Words")

FAIN: TR-266347-19

Linguistic Society of America (Washington, DC 20007-2631)
Alyson Reed (Project Director: January 2019 to present)

Production of twenty-one original episodes of a podcast on language, Subtitle, and additional related programming.

The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) requests a Production Grant of $199,330 over 12 months in support of Subtitle, a podcast project focusing on language. Subtitle is the successor to The World in Words, the recipient of three NEH production grants. This grant would support 20 original podcasts, each with a duration of 20-25 minutes, culminating in a mini-series of six episodes entitled How We Speak. In addition, the nationally-distributed radio program, Here & Now (WBUR/NPR) would broadcast shorter versions (3-7 minutes) of most of the podcast episodes. The grant would also support Subtitle’s online activity, with particular emphasis on social media conversations aimed at engaging a general audience.

Associated Products

Subtitle radio broadcasts (multiple listed in abstract below) (Radio/Audio Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Subtitle radio broadcasts (multiple listed in abstract below)
Writer: Patrick Cox
Director: Patrick Cox
Producer: Patrick Cox
Abstract: Using Forensic Linguistics to decode an anonymous writer’s identity on NPR/WBUR’s Here & Now 11/18/19 A Dying Language of Enslaved Africans Lives on at Harvard on NPR’s Weekend All Things Considered 12/29/19 Is the polyglot brain different? MIT researchers are trying to find out: The World 2/11/20 How to Learn a Language Like a Mormon on NPR/WBUR’s Here & Now 2/17/20 The Netherlands to immigrants: Speak Dutch on The World 4/24/20 Fires, orchestras, parachutes. Some other ways to describe coronavirus, besides war on The World 4/28/20 Two bilingual comedians reshape their acts during lockdown on The World 5/26/20 Finland’s national word ‘sisu’ conjures new meanings for tough times on The World 7/22/20 New Orleans Dialect Threatened by Population Loss Post-Katrina on NPR/WBUR’s Here & Now 9/1/20 The origin of Nicaraguan Sign Language tells us a lot about language creation on The World 9/29/20 What Does It Mean To ‘Sound Black’? on NPR/WBUR’s Here & Now 10/12/20
Date: 04/01/2020
Primary URL Description: All URLs for each radio segment are included in the abstract above.
Access Model: radio broadcast
Format: Radio

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