PART 1
‘USING LANGUAGE TO EXPOSE LANGUAGE’:
SETTING THE SCENE
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Podcast 1: What’s over the hill
Peter Clarke (Media Active), Kate Burridge and Tonya N. Stebbins
This podcast introduces the key concepts and themes covered in Part 1, with exploratory discussions around aspects of language use, development and function.
Length: 16 minutes 32 seconds
PART 2
‘IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD’:
WORDS, WORD STRUCTURE AND MEANING
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Podcast 2: Hungry flies
Peter Clarke (Media Active), Kate Burridge and Tonya N. Stebbins
This podcast introduces the key concepts and themes covered in Part 2, with exploratory discussions around aspects of language use, development and function.
Length: 18 minutes 57 seconds
PART 3:
‘THE DEEP GROOVES OF LANGUAGE’:
SOUNDS AND GRAMMAR
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Podcast 3: Some of those are clicks
Peter Clarke (Media Active), Kate Burridge and Tonya N. Stebbins
This podcast introduces the key concepts and themes covered in Part 3, with exploratory discussions around aspects of language use, development and function.
Length: 17 minutes 54 seconds
PART 4
‘LANGUAGE IS A SOCIAL FACT’:
VARIATION AND CHANGE
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Podcast 4: Yeah-nah
Peter Clarke (Media Active), Kate Burridge and Tonya N. Stebbins
This podcast introduces the key concepts and themes covered in Part 4, with exploratory discussions around aspects of language use, development and function.
Length: 18 minutes 33 seconds
PART 5
‘LANGUAGE THAT ROLLS UP ITS SLEEVES’:
LANGUAGE AT WORK
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Podcast 5: Which bank?
Peter Clarke (Media Active), Kate Burridge and Tonya N. Stebbins
This podcast introduces the key concepts and themes covered in Part 5, with exploratory discussions around aspects of language use, development and function.
Length: 16 minutes 39 seconds
PART 6
‘LANGUAGE IS THE DRESS OF THOUGHT’:
LANGUAGE, MIND AND WORLD
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Podcast 6: I’m sorry, Dave
Peter Clarke (Media Active), Kate Burridge, Tonya N. Stebbins and Simon Musgrave
This podcast introduces the key concepts and themes covered in Part 6, with exploratory discussions around aspects of language use, development and function.
Length: 18 minutes 23 seconds
PODCAST HOSTS
The podcast hosts (L–R): Kate Burridge, Simon Musgrave, Tonya Stebbins and Peter Clarke
Peter Clarke is a writer, webcaster, educator, moderator. He was a former ABC broadcast journalist across current affairs and the arts who pioneered national talkback on Australian radio as the inaugural producer/presenter of Offspring (now Life Matters) on Radio National. Peter has also taught journalism and media courses at several Melbourne universities. His special interest is journalistic interviewing. His passion, wildlife photography.
Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Victoria, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her main areas of research are grammatical change in Germanic languages, the Pennsylvania German spoken by Amish/Mennonite communities in North America, the notion of linguistic taboo, popular perceptions about language, and the structure and history of English. She is a regular presenter of language segments on radio and TV.
Tonya N. Stebbins is Professor of Linguistics at La Trobe University, Victoria. Her contributions to the field include innovative partnerships with communities who speak minority and endangered languages, and ensuring that communities have access to resources that support language revitalisation. Stebbins is an experienced consultant who has completed projects across the health, human services and education sectors. Projects include program evaluation, organisational development, program review, and qualitative research on topics such as family violence, child protection, alcohol and other drugs (AOD) interventions, homelessness and financial capability.
Simon Musgrave is a Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Victoria.