New Books in Language and Translation

Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi (Columbia UP, 2024), Tyler W. Williams puts questions of materiality, circulation, an...

David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What good is a good sense of humour especially when the humour may be ethically questionable? Although humour seems a valuable part of a good conversa...

Matti Eklund, "Alien Structure: Language and Reality" (Oxford UP, 2024)

10 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It is not uncommon to encounter people who think and talk about the world so differently from the way you do that it’s not really possible to put yo...

"The Languages of Indonesian Politics" Revisited

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 1966 Benedict Anderson published 'The Languages of Indonesian Politics', a seminal paper exploring the development of Indonesian as a new language ...

Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024) is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinki...

Elia Powers, "Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Elia Powers' book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality (Rutgers UP, 2024) explores how journalists from historically...

Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)

01 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America--from French fries to Awesome, man!--are destroying the English language....

Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Dr Laura Smith-Khan speaks with Dr Anthea Vogl about her new book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination...

How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?

26 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Rizwan Ahmad, Professor of Sociolinguistics in the Department o...

Derek Hook, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psychology and Psychoanalysis” (Routledge, 2018)

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can Bill Clinton’s “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” shed light on Lacan’s maxim, “The unconscious is structured like a ...

Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023), by Johns Hopkins University instructor Jamie Zvirzdin, i...

Transnational Communicative Care

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do families care for each when they are divided over generations by powerful geopolitical forces beyond their control? In this episode, Hanna Tor...

Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

There is an academic cottage industry on the "Jewish Freud," aiming to detect Jewish influences on Freud, his own feelings about being Jewish, and sup...

Police First Responders Interacting with Domestic Violence Victims

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr. Kate Steel, Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the We...

Remembering Barbara Horvath: A Discussion with Livia Gerber

20 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The sociolinguistics community, particularly in Australia and the US, mourns the recent passing of pioneering sociolinguist Barbara Horvath. To honor ...

Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global History of Literature (University of Chicago Press, 2024), Dr. Zrinka Stahuljak challenges scho...

Jinhyun Cho, "English Language Ideologies in Korea: Interpreting the Past and Present" (Springer, 2017)

06 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Jinhyun Cho, Senior Lecturer in the Translation and Interpreting Program of the Department of Linguistics at Macquarie ...

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2023)

23 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing s...

He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Schuyler Bailar didn’t set out to be an activist, but his very public transition to the Harvard men’s swim team put him in the spotlight. His choi...

Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do newborns think-do they know that 'three' is greater than 'two'? Do they prefer 'right' to 'wrong'? What about emotions--do newborns recognize happi...

Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

10 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity (U Chicago Press, 2024), music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of at...

Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Pacheco speaks with Professor Jemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland) about her book, Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Famil...

Muslim Literacies in China

23 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tazin Abdullah speaks with Dr Ibrar Bhatt about heritage literacies, particularly as they are practiced by Chinese Muslims. Bhatt is the author of ...

Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

20 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation (Bloomsbury...

Life in a New Language, Part 6: Citizenship

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...

Life in a New Language, Part 5: Monolingual Mindset

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...

Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Ella van Hest (Ghent University, Belgium) about her ethnographic research related to language diversity at an abortion ...

Life in a New Language, Part 4: Parenting

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...

Life in a New Language, Part 3: African Migrants

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...

Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller, "How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor" (Oxford UP, 2019)

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor (Oxford UP, 2019), Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple q...

Life in a New Language, Part 2: Work

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language (Oxford UP, 2024) is a new ...

Life in a New Language, Part 1: Identities

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of the Language on the Move Podcast is part of the Life in a New Language series. Life in a New Language is a new book just out from ...

AI and the Humanities: Nina Beguš Discusses "Artificial Humanities"

04 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this debut conversation, we speak to Dr. Nina Beguš, a researcher at UC Berkeley and the founder of InterpretAI who holds a PhD in Comparative Li...

Gretchen McCulloch, "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" (Riverhead Books, 2020)

01 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brynn Quick speaks with best-selling author and linguist Gretchen McCulloch about her 2019 New York Times bestselling book Because Internet: Under...

Jessica Leigh Kirkness, "The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a Language of Light" (Allen & Unwin, 2023)

31 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Pacheco speaks with writer and researcher Jessica Kirkness about her memoir, The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, ...

Vartan Matiossian, "The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern'" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern' (Bloomsbury, 2021) explores the genealogy of the concept of 'Medz ...

Netta Avineri and Patricia Baquedano-López, "An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be" (Routledge, 2024)

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be (Routledge, 2024) is designed to provide the who, what, whe...

The Rise of English

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language, which has just been reissued in paperback by Oxford University Press, with a new prefa...

Nuzhat Abbas, "River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation" (Trace Press, 2023)

18 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonialism, gender, war, displacement, desir...

Image as Form in a Transpositional Grammar

17 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to Episode No.10 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why....

B. J. Woodstein, "Translation Theory for the Practising Literary Translator" (Anthem Press, 2024)

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do translation theorists observe what translators do and develop theories based on that? Do translators gain ideas and tools from studying theories? O...

Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today we talked to Joseph Lo Bianco about the edited volume Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education (Routledge, 2023). The...

Peter J. Freeth and Rafael Treviño, "Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility: Critical Reflections and New Perspectives" (Leuven UP, 2024)

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The question of whether to acknowledge a text as a translation and thereby bring attention to the translator’s role has been a central topic in disc...

The Shanghai Alliance of Multilingual Researchers

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Yixi (Isabella) Qiu speaks with Professor Yongyan Zheng about The Shanghai Alliance of Multilingual Researchers. The interview explores the Allian...

Michael Boler, "Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach" (Catholic U of America Press, 2019)

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The defining feature of this textbook is the treatment of classical and New Testament Greek as one language using primary sources. All the example sen...

Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Michael Chesnut, Professor in the Department of English for International Conferences and Communication at Hankuk Univer...

Ross Perlin, "Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)

27 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and—because many have never been recorded—when they’re gone, it will ...

Sanskrit Study: A Conversation with Antonia Ruppel

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

A candid conversation with renowned Sanskritist and online teacher Antonia Ruppel on her love of the language, teaching philosophy, views on academi...

Elizabeth Peterson, "Making Sense of 'Bad English': An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies" (Routledge, 2019)

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Elizabeth Peterson about language ideologies and what we think when we hear different varieties of English. The conversa...

James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

09 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Piller speaks with James McElvenny about his new book A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II (Edinburgh UP, ...

Kieran File, "How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

05 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

While the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and practitioners, the role that coach and...

Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The fascinating, untold story of how the Chinese language overcame unparalleled challenges and revolutionized the world of computing. A standard QWERT...

Denise Kripper, "Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature" (Routledge, 2023)

25 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature (Routledge, 2023) offers unique insights into the role of the trans...

Interpreting Service Provision is Good Value for Money

18 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Piller speaks with Jim Hlavac about interpreting to bridge language barriers. About 5% of the Australian population do not speak English or ...

Erin Elizabeth Greer, "Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The ideal of ‘conversation’ recurs in modern thought as a symbol and practice central to ethics, democratic politics, and thinking itself. Interwe...

What Does It Mean to Govern a Multilingual Society Well?

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hanna Torsh speaks with Alexandra Grey about good governance in linguistically diverse cities. Linguistic diversity is often seen through a deficit...

What Can Australian Message Sticks Teach Us About Literacy?

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Piller speaks with Piers Kelly about a fascinating form of visual communication, Australian message sticks. What does a message stick look l...

Rebecca Roache, "For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun" (Oxford UP, 2023)

20 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Swearing can be a powerful communicative act, for good or ill. The same word can incite violence or increase intimacy. How is swearing so multivalent ...

Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?

19 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about multilingualism through the ages. We start from the question whether the world today is more multili...

Language Makes the Place

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Piller speaks with Adam Jaworski about his research in language and mobility. Adam is best known for his work on “linguascaping” – how...

This is What Language Means

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Listen to Episode No.7 of All We Mean, a Special Focus of this podcast. All We Mean is an ongoing discussion and debate about how we mean and why. ...

Translanguaging: A Discussion with Ofelia Garcia

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Loy Lising speaks with Ofelia García about translanguaging. The conversation addresses 4 big questions: What is translanguaging? How is translan...

Lies We Tell Ourselves about the History of Multilingualism

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ingrid Piller speaks with Aneta Pavlenko about her new book Multilingualism and History (Cambridge UP, 2023). We often hear that our world 'is mo...

Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Matthew Rubery's book Reader’s Block: A History of Reading Differences (Stanford UP, 2022) explores the influence neurodivergence has on the ways ...

James St. André, "Conceptualising China through Translation" (Manchester UP, 2023)

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Conceptualising China through Translation (Manchester University Press, 2023) by Dr. James St Andre provides an innovative methodology for investigat...

Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

20 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How does human language arise in the mind? To what extent is it innate, or something that is learned? How do these factors interact? The questions sur...

Mudita Nisker and Dan Clurman, "Let's Talk: An Essential Guide to Skillful Communication" (2022)

14 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's Talk: An Essential Guide to Skillful Communication (2022) is a transformative guide to elevate your everyday conversations. Authored by Mudita ...

Gabriel Abend, "Words and Distinctions for the Common Good: Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science" (Princeton UP, 2023)

02 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it Social scientists do resea...

Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan

29 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever felt that the grammar of Asian languages does not fit with the framework that we use to describe them? In the late 19th century, Asian g...

Magda Stroińska, "My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes" (Durvile, 2023)

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes (Durvile, 2023) is Magda Stroińska’s personal account of growing up with c...

Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the hyphen...

Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen

19 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What (and why) can and can't we say? What do empirical examples both at home and abroad tell us about how we should protect freedom of speech? How do ...

Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics (Ohio State UP, 2021) turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril ...

Vedic Texts, Indus Script, Aryan Migration

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Seasoned scholar Asko Parpola discusses his Indological career, from how it began in the 1960s to what he’s working on now. Key themes include his ...

Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)

28 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The SAGE Handbook of Human-Machine Communication (Sage, 2023) has been designed to serve as the touchstone text for researchers and scholars engaging...

Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language (Luath, 2023), Dr. Clive Young sets out to uncover the secret life of Scots – the centur...

Fabrizio Cariani, "The Modal Future: A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does “will” mean? A standard view is that it is a tensed mirror-image of “was”, and that the truth-conditions of past and future sentence...

Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)

04 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters (Oxford University Press, 2023) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary volume that i...

Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

31 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States.  From the clim...

Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they...

Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Allison M. Prasch, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new book that focuses on the w...

Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Critics have long viewed translating Arabic literature into English as an ethically fraught process of mediating between two wholly incommensurable la...

Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)

15 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1798, young French general Napoleon Bonaparte entered Egypt with a veteran army and a specialist group of savants—scientists, engineers, and arti...

Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

08 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What it feels like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture (Penn State Press, 2021) by Dr. Stephanie Larson interrogates an underexamined...

John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

John Guillory (NYU English author of the pathbreaking Cultural Capital) is here to discuss his amazing new Professing Criticism: Essays on the Orga...

Piers Kelly, "The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines" (Oxford UP, 2021)

19 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the southern Philippines, the Bohol community speaks a language they say one man, Pinay, created long ago, leaving it for a modern Filipino named M...

A Better Way to Buy Books

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...

Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India" (Permanent Black, 2023)

09 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India (Permanent Black, 2023) is a cultural history of western India ...

The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara

26 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Talking is a defining part of what makes us human – we are almost constantly in dialogue but what purpose does all this conversation serve? Both for...

Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili" (Ohio UP, 2022)

19 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Morgan J. Robinson argues that the portability of Standard Swahili has contributed to its wide use not only across the African continent but also arou...

Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Jieun Kiaer provides an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a glo...

Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

11 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does a map of Southeast Asia as a pegasus have to do with translation and Southeast Asia? How can we think of translation as anything other than ...

Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Womens' Reproductive Choices (Utah State University Press, 2023) examines how millennia of reprodu...

Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan" (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jae DiBello Takeuchi's Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023) examines dilemmas fa...

The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science...

Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

22 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s guest is Toril Moi, whose book Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin and Cavell (University of Chicago P...

The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad

22 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Translation is a mysterious process that combines the elements of writing – rhythm and voice, meaning, structure and nuance – with the challenge o...

Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Amir Artaban Sedaghat’s Translating Rumi into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond (Routledge, 2023) engages Rumi, the 13th-century Muslim ...

Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breach...

The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The fiftieth anniversary of Helvetica, the most famous of all sans serif typefaces, was celebrated with an excitement unusual in the staid world of ty...