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Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation…

12/8/2025 • 46 min

In Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town (University of Georgia Press, 2025), Dr. Sylvia Hoffert calls on a particularly rich collection of primary sources, including diaries, letters, oral histories, census data, court documents, church records, and psychiatric hospital logs, all relating to Hillsborough, Nort… Play episode

Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran…
Luke Gibson, "Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-By-Step Introduction with …
Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 20…
Henry H. Sapoznik, "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City" (SU…
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Lett…
Australia‘s National Indigenous Languages Survey
Mark Mazower, "On Antisemitism: A Word in History" (Penguin Press, 2025)
Iris Idelson-Shein, "Between the Bridge and the Barricade: Jewish Translat…
Delia Casadei, "Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of S…
Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski, "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on …
Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Agains…
Karen Stollznow, "Bitch: The Journey of a Word" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Fiona J. Mackenzie, "The Cadence of a Song: The Life of Margaret Fay Shaw"…
Arriving in a New Country
Cold Rush
Sexual Imperialism and English Language Teaching
Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Lite…
Intercultural Communication
Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, …
Learning Ancient Languages: A Conversation with Antonia Ruppel
Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets
Janet McIntosh, "Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics" (Oxford U…
Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came t…
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)

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