The Vocal Fries Pod

The Vocal Fries 2019 Gift Guide

Posted on December 9, 2019 by vocalfriespod

🎉🎊🍟Here are some 🎁 ideas based on our amazing guests! 🍟🎊🎉 For everyone on your list, kids and adults alike! A true Vocal 🍟 fave: The Dictionary of Difficult Words by Jane Solomon For the academics and extreme language nerds in your life: Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE by Dr. Alexandra D'arcy For the language-curious and the … Continue reading The Vocal Fries 2019 Gift Guide →

Black Lives Matter Transcript

Posted on December 3, 2019January 21, 2020 by vocalfriespod

https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/s1!825ba Megan Figueroa Hi and welcome to the Vocal Fries podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon I'm Carrie Gillon. Megan Figueroa And I'm Megan Figueroa. I'm laughing at you because you were counting down to our recording session but you counted up. Carrie Gillon Of course. I don't count up. Megan Figueroa I … Continue reading Black Lives Matter Transcript →

Putting the Antics in SemAntics Transcript

Posted on December 2, 2019January 21, 2020 by vocalfriespod

https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/s1!bb926 Megan Figueroa: Hi, and welcome to the "Vocal Fries" podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon: I'm Carrie Gillon. Megan: I'm Megan Figueroa. We got to see each other this weekend. Carrie: Yes, we did. Megan: Yeah, it's really cool because that's not normally how it goes. Carrie: No. Megan: We don't see … Continue reading Putting the Antics in SemAntics Transcript →

Bilingualism Isn’t Just for White Kids Transcript

Posted on November 12, 2019November 19, 2019 by vocalfriespod

Thanks to Dr. Lina Hou for paying for this transcript and giving it to us! https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/s1!7eef3 Megan Figueroa: Welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, a podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon: I'm Carrie Gillon. Megan Figueroa: And I'm Megan Figueroa. I have some behind-the-scenes info we, or at least I, always forget our intro. [Laughter] … Continue reading Bilingualism Isn’t Just for White Kids Transcript →

Don’t Mind the Gap Transcript

Posted on October 31, 2019 by vocalfriespod

Thanks to Dr. Lina Hou for paying for this transcript and giving it to us! https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/s1!ce6cf Megan Figueroa: Hi, and welcome to the Vocal Fries Podcast, the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Carrie Gillon: I'm Carrie Gillon. Megan Figueroa: And I'm Megan Figueroa. And we have an exciting episode, today. Carrie Gillon: Yeah. Megan Figueroa: Yeah. … Continue reading Don’t Mind the Gap Transcript →

Transcript

Posted on October 30, 2019 by vocalfriespod

We have a transcript available for Don't Mind the Gap: https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/s1!ce6cf (but we aren't sure if we're allowed to post it yet). Email us (vocalfriespod at gmail) if you'd like to have a copy!

The Rhetoric of Xenophobia Addendum

Posted on September 23, 2019 by vocalfriespod

Here are the Ben Zimmer articles mentioned in our latest episode: https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/ep/s1!fa194 Where Does Trump’s ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric Come From? Why Trump Uses Mock Spanish Why Donald Trump’s Racist Language Isn’t Debatable What Trump Talks About When He Talks About Infestations The frightening political history of the word “infest.”