New Books in Language

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

7/3/2025 • 46 min

For centuries, scribes across East Asia used Chinese characters to write things down–even in languages based on very different foundations than Chinese. In southern China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam, people used Chinese to read and write–and never thought it was odd. It was, after all, how things were done. Even today, Cantonese speakers use Chinese characters to… Play episode

J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revoluti…
Improving Quality of Care for Patients with Limited English
Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's Red Shirt" (Sinoist Books,…
Nicholas de Lange, "Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations…
David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Libr…
Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at th…
Chinese in Qatar
Accents, Complex Identities, and Politics
Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays" (Wilfrid Laurier U…
Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason
Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella And…
Is Beach Safety Signage Fit For Purpose?
Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (O…
Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Pr…
Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Cam…
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…

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