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Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write…

5/3/2025 • 45 min

While other ancient nonalphabetic scripts—Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Mayan hieroglyphs—are long extinct, Chinese characters, invented over three thousand years ago, are today used by well over a billion people to write Chinese and Japanese. In medieval East Asia, the written Classical Chinese language knit the region together in a common intel… Play episode

The Case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers
Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, …
Christian Ilbury, "Researching Language and Digital Communication" (Routle…
Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide…
Mara Nicosia, "Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocab…
Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne
Ryan M. Nefdt, "The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary …
Joseph J. Diorio, "A Few Words about Words" (Beaufort Books, 2021)
Lingua Napoletana and Language Oppression
Ian Rapley, "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Qu…
Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaga…
Intercultural Competence in the Digital Age
Emma Borg and Sarah A. Fisher, "Meaning: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxfor…
Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe
Educational Inequality in Fijian Higher Education
Constantine R. Campbell, "Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek" (Zond…
Multilingual Crisis Communication
The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
S4E20 Cosmic Connections: A Conversation with Charles Taylor
Andrew S. Latham, "Hey! Listen!: Hypertext Rhetoric and The Legend of Zeld…
Language Rights in a Changing China
Whiteness, Accents, and Children's Media
Creaky Voice in Australian English
Fatima Rajina, "British Bangladeshi Muslims in the East End: The Changing …
Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling
Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (…
Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge
Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in H…
David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chic…
Matti Eklund, "Alien Structure: Language and Reality" (Oxford UP, 2024)
"The Languages of Indonesian Politics" Revisited
Roni Henig, "On Revival: Hebrew Literature Between Life and Death" (U Penn…
Elia Powers, "Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Ne…
Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princ…
Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determina…
How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?
Derek Hook, “Six Moments in Lacan: Communication and Identification in Psy…
Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter
Transnational Communicative Care
Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" …
Police First Responders Interacting with Domestic Violence Victims
Remembering Barbara Horvath: A Discussion with Livia Gerber
Zrinka Stahuljak, "Fixers: Agency, Translation, and the Early Global Histo…
Jinhyun Cho, "English Language Ideologies in Korea: Interpreting the Past …
Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Informat…
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Ox…
Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanit…

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