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Piers Kelly, "The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines" …

9/19/2023 • 62 min

In the southern Philippines, the Bohol community speaks a language they say one man, Pinay, created long ago, leaving it for a modern Filipino named Mariano Datahan to rediscover and reenliven. The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Piers Kelly tells the story of the Eskayan language through lingui… Play episode

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Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cult…
The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara
Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swah…
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (…
Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast …
Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of …
Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Nati…
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Te…
Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstei…
The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad
Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and…
Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Commu…
The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital
Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen…
Nick Enfield on Language, Influence, and Science Communications
James Paul Gee, "What Is a Human?: Language, Mind, and Culture" (Palgrave …
The International Association of Sanskrit Studies
Jan Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Transl…
Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Liter…
Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
The Evolution of Language
Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the…
Thomas Kelly, "Bias: A Philosophical Study" (Oxford UP, 2023)
The World Made Meme: Public Conversations and Participatory Media
Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything"…
Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Du…
Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and t…
Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, "Decolonial Conversations in Post…
Timothy Cleveland, "Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable" …
Robert J. Dostal, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Diale…
Lois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 20…
Dalal Abo El Seoud, "Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food …
Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics
Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U…
The World Sanskrit Conference: A Discussion with McComas Taylor
Michelle R. Boyd, "Becoming the Writer You Already Are" (Sage, 2022)
Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, "Metamodernism: The Future of Theory" (U Chi…
Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)
Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, …
4.6 Translation is the Closest Way to Read: Ann Goldstein and Saskia Ziolk…
Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang, "Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translati…
James Griffiths, "Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language…
Tristan Grøtvedt Haze, "Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity" (Routledge, 20…
92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF,…
Online Sanskrit Study Resources
Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Gener…
Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation"…
Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"

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