78: Forensic Linguistics, Really (with Helen Fraser, Georgina Heydon, Diana Eades, Seán Roberts, and Steph Rennick)
Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
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The Monolingual Language Ideology
There is a widespread view in countries like Australia that things work best when you're only operating in one language. A lot of people who are monolingual and who haven't learned to operate partially in a second language have got no idea of what it means to speak, for instance, quite well about the football or your kids. It's not the reality of how 21st century Australia is actually working.
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