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Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
104: Dogwhistles (with Elin McCready, Lizzy Hanks, Jesse Egbert, and Rikker Dockum)
Aug 26, 2024
01:44:12
Can you hear them? Only if you're meant to. Political dogwhistles exploit lack of knowledge in one group to send a coded message to another group. But that's just the beginning. How are dogwhistles different from slurs? How do they licence behaviour? Do progressives dogwhistle? Dr Elin McCready is the author of Signaling Without Saying: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Dogwhistles.
We're also joined by Lizzy Hanks and Dr Jesse Egbert, who are working on the LANA-CASE corpus, a huge corpus of conversational English. It aims to bring representation to a diverse group of English speakers, and they're looking for contributors.
Dr Rikker Dockum is our special guest host.
Timestamps
- Intros: 0:00
- News: 3:01
- Interview with Lizzy Hanks and Jesse Egbert: 16:47
- Related or Not: 35:45
- Interview with Elin McCready: 45:57
- Words of the Week: 1:17:47
- The Reads: 1:39:43
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