103 Episodes

  1. 103: A hand-y guide to gesture

    Published: 4/18/2025
  2. 102: The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf

    Published: 3/21/2025
  3. 101: Micro to macro - The levels of language

    Published: 2/21/2025
  4. 100: A hundred reasons to be enthusiastic about linguistics

    Published: 1/17/2025
  5. 99: A politeness episode, if you please

    Published: 12/20/2024
  6. 98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender

    Published: 11/22/2024
  7. 97: OooOooh~~ our possession episode oOooOOoohh 👻

    Published: 10/17/2024
  8. 96: Welcome back aboard the metaphor train!

    Published: 9/20/2024
  9. 95: Lo! An undetached collection of meaning-parts!

    Published: 8/15/2024
  10. 94: The perfectly imperfect aspect episode

    Published: 7/19/2024
  11. 93: How nonbinary and binary people talk - Interview with Jacq Jones

    Published: 6/21/2024
  12. 92: Brunch, gonna, and fozzle - The smooshing episode

    Published: 5/17/2024
  13. 91: Scoping out the scope of scope

    Published: 4/18/2024
  14. 90: What visualizing our vowels tells us about who we are

    Published: 3/21/2024
  15. 89: Connecting with oral culture

    Published: 2/16/2024
  16. 88: No such thing as the oldest language

    Published: 1/18/2024
  17. 87: If I were an irrealis episode

    Published: 12/21/2023
  18. 86: Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez

    Published: 11/16/2023
  19. 85: Ergativity delights us

    Published: 10/19/2023
  20. 84: Look, it's deixis, an episode about pointing!

    Published: 9/22/2023

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A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. "A fascinating listen that will change the way you see everyday communications." –New York Times. "Joyously nerdy" –Buzzfeed. Weird and deep half-hour conversations about language on the third Thursday of the month. Listened to all the episodes here and wish there were more? Want to talk with other people who are enthusiastic about linguistics? Get bonus episodes and access to our Discord community at www.patreon.com/lingthusiasm Shownotes and transcripts: www.lingthusiasm.com