All Episodes

Italo Calvino on the Written and the Unwritten Word

Yiddish: Biography of a Language

Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis

Aya Elyada, "A Lingering Legacy: The Afterlife of Yiddish in German-Jewish Culture, 1818–1938" (Stanford UP, 2026)

David Krolikoski, "Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetry in Colonial Korea" (U Hawai'i Press, 2026)

Elena Foulis, "Embodied Encuentros: Oral History Archives of Latina/o/e Experiences" (Ohio State UP, 2026)

The (Un)imagined Work of Linguistic Inclusion

Nathaniel Greenberg, "The Long War of Ideas: American Public Diplomacy in Arabic After 9/11" (Columbia UP, 2026)

Myung-jin Han with Nicolas Levi, "I Was a North Korean Diplomat: Inside the Secret World of Pyongyang's Foreign Service" (Independently Published, 2026)

Elizabeth Rosner, "Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening" (Catapult, 2025)

Ted Goossen on translating Hiromi Kawakami’s “Third Love”

Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Older Adults Learning English in Berlin

Dominik Berrens, "Naming New Things and Concepts in Early Modern Science: The Case of Natural History" (Cambridge UP, 2026)

Yiddish Children’s Literature and Jewish Modernity: A Conversation with Miriam Udel

Zhou Meisen, "Property of the People" (Sinoist, 2025)

Asif Iqbal, "Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation" (Routledge, 2025)

Teaching English Pronunciation

Why Did Langston Hughes's "Troubled Lands" Go Unpublished for Nearly a Century?: A Conversation with Ricardo Wilson

Yiddish in Israel: A History

Danny Bate, "Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them" (Bonnier Books, 2025)

Lorena Sekwan Fontaine and Adam Muller eds., "The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages" A Special Issue of Genocide Studies International" (Vol 16, No 2)

Hiromi Ito, "The Thorn Puller" (Stone Bridge Press, 2022)

Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai" (UnionPress, 2025)

Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai" (UnionPress, 2025)

The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City with Henry Sapoznik

Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan eds., "Autotheories" (MIT Press, 2025)

Damion Searls, "The Philosophy of Translation" (Yale UP, 2024)

Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Sophie Salvo, "Articulating Difference: Sex and Language in the German Nineteenth Century"(U Chicago Press, 2024)

Renny Thomas and Sasanka Perera, "Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission

Elaine M. Fisher, "The Meeting of Rivers: Translating Religion in Early Modern India" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Manchán Magan, "Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape" (Chelsea Green, 2026)

Rishi Rajpopat, "Panini's Perfect Rule: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem in Sanskrit Grammar" (Harvard UP, 2025)

Daniel Eastman An, "Fear of God: Practicing Emotion in Late Antique Monasticism" (U California Press, 2025)

Sylvia D. Hoffert, "Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town" (U Georgia Press, 2025)

Radio ReOrient 13.7: "Linguistics, Citizenship and Belonging,” with Kamran Khan, hosted by Claudia Radiven and Marchella Ward

Luke Gibson, "Reading Sanskrit: A Complete Step-By-Step Introduction with Texts from the Buddhist Tradition" (Columbia UP, 2025)

Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025)

Henry H. Sapoznik, "The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City" (SUNY Press, 2025)

Michelle McSweeney, "OK" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

Eric H. Cline, "Love, War, and Diplomacy: The Discovery of the Amarna Letters and the Bronze Age World They Revealed" (Princeton UP, 2025)

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 Translation in Early Modern Europe" (U Penn Press, 2024)

Delia Casadei, "Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound" (U California Press, 2024)

Amanda Belantara and Emily Drabinski, "Ways of Knowing: Oral Histories on the Worlds Words Create" (Litwin Books, 2024)

Greg Lukianoff and Nadine Strossen, "The War on Words: 10 Arguments Against Free Speech—And Why They Fail" (Heresy Press, 2025)

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" (Birlinn, 2025)

Arriving in a New Country

Cold Rush

Sexual Imperialism and English Language Teaching

Victoria Young, "Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference" (Routledge, 2024)

Intercultural Communication

Rob Goodman, "Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Learning Ancient Languages: A Conversation with Antonia Ruppel

Multilingual Practices and Monolingual Mindsets

Janet McIntosh, "Kill Talk: Language and Military Necropolitics" (Oxford UP, 2025)

Zev Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)

J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story" (Thames & Hudson, 2025)

Tie Ning, Annelise Finegan trans., "My Sister's Red Shirt" (Sinoist Books, 2025)

Improving Quality of Care for Patients with Limited English

Nicholas de Lange, "Japheth in the Tents of Shem: Greek Bible Translations in Byzantine Judaism" (Mohr Siebeck, 2016)

Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

David Crystal, "Bookish Words and Their Surprising Stories" (Bodleian Library, 2025)

Chinese in Qatar

Accents, Complex Identities, and Politics

Amie Souza Reilly, "Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays" (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2025)

Speaking Philosophically: Communication at the Limits of Discursive Reason

Paola De Santo and Caterina Mongiat Farina, (eds. and trans.) Isabella Andreini, "Letters" (Iter Press, 2023)

Is Beach Safety Signage Fit For Purpose?

Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press, 2025)

Laura Otis, "Banned Emotions: How Metaphors Can Shape What People Feel" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Timothy A. Lee, "The Syriac Peshiṭta Bible: The New Testament" (Gorgias Press, 2023)

Zev J. Handel, "Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese" (U Washington Press, 2025)

The Case for ASL Instruction for Hearing Heritage Signers

Laura Spinney, "Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

Lorna Gibb, "Rare Tongues: The Secret Stories of Hidden Languages" (Princeton UP, 2025)

Christian Ilbury, "Researching Language and Digital Communication" (Routledge, 2025)

Yellowlees Douglas, "Writing for the Reader's Brain: A Science-Based Guide" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Mara Nicosia, "Syriac Lexis and Lexica: Compiling Ancient and Modern Vocabularies" (Gorgias Press, 2024)

Gestures and Emblems: A Discussion with Lauren Gawne

Ryan M. Nefdt, "The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

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 Question, 1880–1945" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

Genevieve Guenther, "The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Intercultural Competence in the Digital Age

Emma Borg and Sarah A. Fisher, "Meaning: a Very Short Introduction" (Oxford UP, 2024)

Multilingual Law-Making: A Discussion with Karen McAuliffe

Educational Inequality in Fijian Higher Education

Constantine R. Campbell, "Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek" (Zondervan Academic, 2024)

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 Zelda" (McFarland, 2024)

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 Landscape of Dress and Language" (Manchester UP, 2024)

Supporting Multilingual Families to Engage with their Children’s Schooling

Linguistic Diversity as a Bureaucratic Challenge

Hannah Pollin-Galay, "Occupied Words: What the Holocaust Did to Yiddish" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Tyler W. Williams, "If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi" (Columbia UP, 2024)

David Shoemaker, "Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

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 Pennsylvania Press, 2024)

Elia Powers, "Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality" (Rutgers UP, 2024)

Ben Yagoda, "Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English" (Princeton UP, 2024)

Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination

How Did Arabic Get on That Sign?

Subatomic Writing: Six Fundamental Lessons to Make Language Matter

Transnational Communicative Care

Naomi Seidman, "In the Freud Closet: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Languages" (Stanford UP, 2024)

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 History of Literature" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Jinhyun Cho, "English Language Ideologies in Korea: Interpreting the Past and Present" (Springer, 2017)

Uluğ Kuzuoğlu, "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" (Columbia UP, 2023)

He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Gavin Steingo, "Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity" (U Chicago Press, 2024)

Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families

Muslim Literacies in China

Eric Reinders, "Reading Tolkien in Chinese: Religion, Fantasy and Translation" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

Life in a New Language, Part 6: Citizenship

Life in a New Language, Part 5: Monolingual Mindset

Language Policy at an Abortion Clinic

Life in a New Language, Part 4: Parenting

Life in a New Language, Part 3: African Migrants

Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller, "How Things Count as the Same: Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Life in a New Language, Part 2: Work

Life in a New Language, Part 1: Identities

AI and the Humanities: Nina Beguš Discusses "Artificial Humanities"

Gretchen McCulloch, "Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language" (Riverhead Books, 2020)

Jessica Leigh Kirkness, "The House with All the Lights on: Three Generations, One Roof, a Language of Light" (Allen & Unwin, 2023)

Vartan Matiossian, "The Politics of Naming the Armenian Genocide: Language, History and 'Medz Yeghern'" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Netta Avineri and Patricia Baquedano-López, "An Introduction to Language and Social Justice: What Is, What Has Been, and What Could Be" (Routledge, 2024)

The Rise of English

Nuzhat Abbas, "River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation" (Trace Press, 2023)

Image as Form in a Transpositional Grammar

B. J. Woodstein, "Translation Theory for the Practising Literary Translator" (Anthem Press, 2024)

Community and Heritage Languages Schools Transforming Education

Peter J. Freeth and Rafael Treviño, "Beyond the Translator’s Invisibility: Critical Reflections and New Perspectives" (Leuven UP, 2024)

The Shanghai Alliance of Multilingual Researchers

Michael Boler, "Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach" (Catholic U of America Press, 2019)

Multilingual Commanding Urgency from Garbage to COVID-19

Ross Perlin, "Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2024)

Sanskrit Study: A Conversation with Antonia Ruppel

Elizabeth Peterson, "Making Sense of 'Bad English': An Introduction to Language Attitudes and Ideologies" (Routledge, 2019)

James McElvenny, "A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War II" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)

Kieran File, "How Language Shapes Relationships in Professional Sports Teams: Power and Solidarity Dynamics in a New Zealand Rugby Team" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Thomas S. Mullaney, "The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age" (MIT Press, 2024)

Denise Kripper, "Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature" (Routledge, 2023)

Interpreting Service Provision is Good Value for Money

Erin Elizabeth Greer, "Fiction, Philosophy and the Ideal of Conversation" (Edinburgh UP, 2023)

What Does It Mean to Govern a Multilingual Society Well?

What Can Australian Message Sticks Teach Us About Literacy?

Rebecca Roache, "For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Can We Ever Unthink Linguistic Nationalism?

Language Makes the Place

This is What Language Means

Translanguaging: A Discussion with Ofelia Garcia

Lies We Tell Ourselves about the History of Multilingualism

Matthew Rubery, "Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences" (Stanford UP, 2022)

James St. André, "Conceptualising China through Translation" (Manchester UP, 2023)

Harry van der Hulst, "A Mind for Language: An Introduction to the Innateness Debate" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Mudita Nisker and Dan Clurman, "Let's Talk: An Essential Guide to Skillful Communication" (2022)

Gabriel Abend, "Words and Distinctions for the Common Good: Practical Reason in the Logic of Social Science" (Princeton UP, 2023)

Grammar, Identity, and Ideology in Early 20th-Century Japan

Magda Stroińska, "My Life in Propaganda: A Memoir about Language and Totalitarian Regimes" (Durvile, 2023)

Pardis Mahdavi, "Hyphen" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Speech Unbound: A Conversation with Nadine Strossen

Wendy S. Hesford, "Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

Vedic Texts, Indus Script, Aryan Migration

Andrea L. Guzman et al., "The SAGE Handbook of Human–Machine Communication" (SAGE, 2023)

Clive Young, "Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language" (Luath Press, 2023)

Fabrizio Cariani, "The Modal Future: A Theory of Future-Directed Thought and Talk" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Yigal Bronner, "A Lasting Vision: Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Dara Z. Strolovitch, "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Allison M. Prasch, "The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War" (U Chicago Press, 2023)

Anna Ziajka Stanton, "The Worlding of Arabic Literature: Language, Affect, and the Ethics of Translatability" (Fordham UP, 2023)

Jonathan Downs, "Discovery at Rosetta: Revealing Ancient Egypt" (American University in Cairo Press, 2020)

Stephanie R. Larson, "What It Feels Like: Visceral Rhetoric and the Politics of Rape Culture" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

John Guillory Professes Criticism (JP, Nick Dames)

Piers Kelly, "The Last Language on Earth: Linguistic Utopianism in the Philippines" (Oxford UP, 2021)

A Better Way to Buy Books

Prachi Deshpande, "Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India" (Permanent Black, 2023)

The Future of Talking: A Discussion with Shane O'Mara

Morgan J. Robinson, "A Language for the World: The Standardization of Swahili" (Ohio UP, 2022)

Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)

Jae DiBello Takeuchi, "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan" (Mulitlingual Matters, 2023)

The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us

Toril Moi, "Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

The Art of Translation: A Discussion with Anne Birkenhauer Molad

Amir Sedaghat, "Translating Rumi Into the West: A Linguistic Conundrum and Beyond" (Routledge, 2023)

Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)

The Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital

Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

Nick Enfield on Language, Influence, and Science Communications

James Paul Gee, "What Is a Human?: Language, Mind, and Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

The International Association of Sanskrit Studies

Jan Ke-Schutte, "Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations" (U California Press, 2023)

Alexander Jabbari, "The Making of Persianate Modernity: Language and Literary History between Iran and India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, "Decolonizing American Spanish: Eurocentrism and the Limits of Foreignness in the Imperial Ecosystem" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2022)

Thomas Kelly, "Bias: A Philosophical Study" (Oxford UP, 2023)

Bernard D. Geoghegan, "Code: From Information Theory to French Theory" (Duke UP, 2023)

Philippe Schlenker, "What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything" (MIT Press, 2022)

Nathan Vedal, "The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Jennifer Clary-Lemon and David M. Grant, "Decolonial Conversations in Posthuman and New Material Rhetorics" (Ohio State UP, 2022)

Timothy Cleveland, "Beyond Words: Philosophy, Fiction, and the Unsayable" (Lexington Books, 2022)

Robert J. Dostal, "Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

Lois Presser, "Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences" (U California Press, 2022)

Dalal Abo El Seoud, "Fish, Milk, Tamarind: A Book of Egyptian Arabic Food Expressions" (American U in Cairo Press, 2022)

Edmund Leach on Roman Jakobson's Contributions to Linguistics

Anatoly Liberman, "Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms" (U Minnesota Press, 2023)

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 Chicago Press, 2021)

Jane Stevenson, "Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period" (Brill, 2022)

Hilan Bensusan, "Indexicalism: The Metaphysics of Paradox" (Edinburgh UP, 2021)

4.6 Translation is the Closest Way to Read: Ann Goldstein and Saskia Ziolkowski

Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang, "Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation" (Tilted Axis Press, 2022)

James Griffiths, "Speak Not: Empire, Identity and the Politics of Language" (Zed Books, 2021)

Tristan Grøtvedt Haze, "Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity" (Routledge, 2022)

92 Janet McIntosh on "Let's Go Brandon," QAnon and Alt-Right Language (EF, JP)

Online Sanskrit Study Resources

Nirmalangshu Mukherji, "The Human Mind Through the Lens of Language: Generative Explorations" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Michael Keevak, "On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation" (Hong Kong UP, 2022)

Eric Hobsbawm on "Literacy and the Tower of Babel"

Carles Prado-Fonts, "Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation" (Northwestern UP, 2022)

4.3 Strange Beasts of Translation: Yan Ge and Jeremy Tiang in Conversation

Bo Mou, "Philosophy of Language, Chinese Language, Chinese Philosophy" (Brill, 2018)

Raúl Pérez, "The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy" (Stanford UP, 2022)

4.1 “Sometimes I’m just a little disappointed in English”

Lucía Fernández-Amaya, "A Linguistic Overview of Whatsapp Communication" (Brill, 2022)

Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)

Asad Q. Ahmed, "Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Postclassical Muslim South Asia" (U California Press, 2022)

Michael Sidney Fosberg, "Nobody Wants to Talk about It: Race, Identity, and the Difficulties in Forging Meaningful Conversations" (Incognito, 2020)

Johanna Drucker, "Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present" (U Chicago Press, 2022)

Giore Etzion, "The Routledge Introductory Course in Modern Hebrew" (Routledge, 2019)

Rosemary Salomone, "The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Robert McColl Millar, "Sociolinguistic History of Scotland" (Edinburgh UP, 2020)

Lydia Wilkes et al., "Rhetoric and Guns" (Utah State UP, 2022)

Welding Technical Communication: Teaching and Learning Embodied Knowledge

Julia Molinari, "What Makes Writing Academic: Rethinking Theory for Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Crosswords

Should Scholars Trust Machine Translation of their Articles?

Kay Muhr and Liam Ó. hAisibéil, "The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names of Ireland" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Peter Scharf, "Sabdanugamah: Indian Linguistic Studies in Honor of George Cardona; Volume 1: Vyakarana and Sabdabodha" (Sanskrit Library, 2021)

Roslyn Petelin, "How Writing Works: A Field Guide to Effective Writing" (Routledge, 2021)

Sofia Stolk, "The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror" (Routledge, 2021)

Mónica Guzmán, "I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times" (BenBella Books, 2022)

The Importance of Pali, the Language of Ancient Buddhism

Hana Videen, "The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English" (Princeton UP, 2022)

Zhihui Fang, "Demystifying Academic Writing: Genres, Moves, Skills, and Strategies" (Routledge, 2021)

Priyambada Sarkar, "Language, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Yiddish in Europe

Szu-Wen Kung, "Translation of Contemporary Taiwan Literature in a Cross-Cultural Context" (Routledge, 2021)

Jennifer Delfino, "Speaking of Race: Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children" (Lexington Book, 2020)

Jennifer Petersen, "How Machines Came to Speak: Media Technologies and Freedom of Speech" (Duke UP, 2022)

Ellen Jones, "Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas" (Columbia UP, 2022)

Jing Tsu, "Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern" (Riverhead Books, 2022)

N. J. Enfield, "Language Vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists" (MIT Press, 2022)

Eliza Jane Smith, "Literary Slumming: Slang and Class in Nineteenth-Century France" (Lexington Books, 2021)

Dennis Duncan, "Index, a History of The: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age" (W.W. Norton, 2022)

Mary Norris, "Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen" (Norton, 2020)

Tony Veale, "Your Wit Is My Command: Building AIs with a Sense of Humor" (MIT Press, 2021)

Language Bias: The Last Back Door of Discrimination in America?

Nigel A. Caplan, "Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers" (U Michigan Press, 2019)

Matthew C. Watson, "Afterlives of Affect: Science, Religion, and an Edgewalker’s Spirit" (Duke UP, 2020)

N. J. Enfield, "The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Keith Kahn-Harris, "The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language" (Icon Books, 2021)

Exploring Science Literacy and Public Engagement with Science

From Linear A to Linear B: Suggestive Continuity

Joyce W. Nutta, "English Learners at Home and at School: Stories and Strategies" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)

Sher Wells-Jensen on the Pitfalls of Linguistics

Sarah and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Tiller Press, 2021)

Brigid O'Keeffe, "Esperanto and Languages of Internationalism in Revolutionary Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

Chun-Yi Peng, "Mediatized Taiwanese Mandarin: Popular Culture, Masculinity, and Social Perceptions" (Springer, 2021)

Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton, "Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies" (Fordham UP, 2016)

Andrew Piper, "Can We Be Wrong? The Problem of Textual Evidence in a Time of Data" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Nishaant Choksi, "Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

James Wynn and G. Mitchell Reyes, "Arguing with Numbers: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Mathematics" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2021)

Nina Kraus, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World" (MIT Press, 2021)

Sanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 2)

Sanskrit Tools on the Web: An Discussion with Martin Gluckman (Part 1)

Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, "Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Scott Soames, “Appreciating Analytic Philosophy” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Michele Kennerly, "Editorial Bodies: Perfection and Rejection in Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics" (U South Carolina Press, 2018)

Caitlin Ring Carlson, "Hate Speech" (MIT Press, 2021)

Carol Padden, “Sign Language Linguistics” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Antonia M. Ruppel, "An Introductory Sanskrit Reader: Improving Reading Fluency" (Brill, 2021)

Henning Trüper, "Orientalism, Philology, and the Illegibility of the Modern World" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

James Diggle, "Cambridge Greek Lexicon" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Sarah Nannery and Larry Nannery, "What to Say Next: Successful Communication in Work, Life, and Love—with Autism Spectrum Disorder" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)

Samuel Gershman, "What Makes Us Smart: The Computational Logic of Human Cognition" (Princeton UP, 2021)

Martin Jay, “Pants on Fire: On Lying in Politics” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Rachel Rojanski, "Yiddish in Israel: A History" (Indiana UP, 2020)

Preserving Local Languages to Protect Cultural and Environmental Rights in Laos

J. P. M. Drury and S. A. M. Drury, "Rhetoric, Politics, and Hamilton: an American Musical" (Peter Lang, 2021)

Tom G. Hoogervorst, "Language Ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese Print Entrepreneurs, 1911–1949" (Cornell UP, 2021)

Alex Poole, "Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)

William Duffy, "Beyond Conversation: Collaboration and the Production of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2021)

Sarah Bunin Benor et al., "Hebrew Infusion: Language and Community at American Jewish Summer Camps" (Rutgers UP, 2020)

Nicholas Harkness, "Glossolalia and the Problem of Language" (U Chicago Press, 2021)

Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Names of New York: Discovering the City's Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names" (Pantheon, 2021)

Victor Ferreira, “Speaking and Thinking” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Maïa Ponsonnet, "Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions" (Routledge, 2019)

Helen Sword, "The Writer's Diet: A Guide to Fit Prose" (U Chicago Press, 2016)

Susan Gal and Judith T. Irvine, "Signs of Difference: Language and Ideology in Social Life" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Iris Berent, "The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason about Human Nature" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Andre E. Johnson, "No Future in This Country: The Prophetic Pessimism of Bishop Henry Mcneal Turner" (U Mississippi Press, 2020)

Ellen Bialystok, “The Psychology of Bilingualism” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Christina R. Foust et al., "What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics" (U Alabama Press, 2017)

David Bellos, “Babbling Barbarians: How Translators Keep Us Civilized” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Richard Scholar, "Émigrés: French Words That Turned English" (Princeton UP, 2020)

Yurou Zhong, "Chinese Grammatology: Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916-1958" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Leonard Greenspoon, "Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress" (Jewish Publication Society, 2020)

Nathan R. Johnson, "Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age" (U Alabama Press, 2020)

Zoë Slatoff-Ponté, "Yogavataranam: The Translation of Yoga" (North Point Press, 2015)

Susan E. Kirtley, "Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips" (Ohio State UP, 2021)

Eviatar Zerubavel, "Taken for Granted: The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable" (Princeton UP, 2018)

Mona Simion, "Shifty Speech and Independent Thought: Epistemic Normativity in Context" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Robert C. Bartlett, "Against Demagogues: What Aristophanes Can Teach Us about the Perils of Populism and the Fate of Democracy" (U California Press, 2020)

Iain McGee, "Understanding the Paragraph and Paragraphing" (Equinox, 2018)

James Fredal, "The Enthymeme: Syllogism, Reasoning, and Narrative in Ancient Greek Rhetoric" (Penn State UP, 2020)

Ken Hyland, "Second Language Writing" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

Herbert Terrace, "Why Chimpanzees Can't Learn Language and Only Humans Can" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Ralph Keyes, "The Hidden History of Coined Words" (Oxford UP, 2021)

Joshua Gunn, "Political Perversion: Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering" (U of Chicago Press, 2020)

Political Rhetoric and Demagoguery with Jennifer Mercieca

Ramsey McGlazer, "Old Schools: Modernism, Education, and the Critique of Progress" (Fordham UP, 2020)

Christopher Joby, "The Dutch Language in Japan (1600-1900): A Cultural and Sociolinguistic Study of Dutch as a Contact Language in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan" (Brill, 2020)

Joan Turner, "On Writtenness: The Cultural Politics of Academic Writing" (Bloomsbury, 2018)

Karen Stollznow, "On the Offensive: Prejudice in Language Past and Present" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Kamran Khan, "Becoming a Citizen: Linguistic Trials and Negotiations in the UK" (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2019)

Jeffrey Shandler, "Yiddish: Biography of a Language" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Gert-Jan van der Heiden, "The Voice of Misery: A Continental Philosophy of Testimony" (SUNY Press, 2020)

Stephen Pihlaja, "Talk about Faith: How Debate and Conversation Shape Belief" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

Shonna Trinch and Edward Snajdr, "What the Signs Say: Language, Gentrification, and Place-Making in Brooklyn" (Vanderbilt UP, 2020)

Writing in Disciplines: A Discussion with Shyam Sharma

I. Stavans and J. Lambert, "How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish" (Restless Books, 2020)

Leon S. Brenner, "The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Wesley C. Robertson, "Scripting Japan: Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese" (Routledge, 2020)

Daniel Oberhaus, "Extraterrestrial Languages" (MIT Press, 2019)

Roger Kreuz and Richard Roberts, "Changing Minds: How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging" (MIT Press, 2019)

Regina Rini, "The Ethics of Microaggression" (Routledge, 2020)

Catharine Abell, "Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Leigh Thompson, "Negotiating the Sweet Spot: The Art of Leaving Nothing on the Table" (HarperCollins, 2020)

Marco Ferrante, "Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self" (Routledge, 2020)

J. S. Sutton and M. L. Mifsud, "A Revolution in Tropes: Alloiostrophic Rhetoric" (Lexington Books, 2015)

Rosanne Carlo, "Transforming Ethos: Place and the Material in Rhetoric and Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)

Coulter George, "How Dead Languages Work" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Gregory Forth, "A Dog Pissing at the Edge of a Path: Animal Metaphors in an Eastern Indonesian Society" (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2019)

Chris Heffer, "All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincerity, Irresponsibility, and the Judgment of Untruthfulness" (Oxford UP, 2020)

EQ Spotlight Special: Roundtable on the 2020 Presidential Race

Sarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon" (U Toronto Press, 2018)

Katherine Kinzler, "How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do - And What It Says About You" (HMH, 2020)

B. Cope and M. Kalantzis, "Making Sense: Reference, Agency, and Structure in a Grammar of Multimodal Meaning" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Marco Puleri, "Ukrainian, Russophone, (Other) Russian: Hybrid Identities and Narratives in Post-Soviet Culture and Politics" (Peter Lang, 2020)

Alessandro Graheli, "The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy of Language" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Beata Stawarska, "Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology: 'The Course in General Linguistics' after a Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)

Allison L. Rowland, "Zoetropes and the Politics of Humanhood" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

Nate Marshall, "Finna: Poems" (One World, 2020)

David Tavárez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America" (U Colorado Press, 2017)

Linda Goddard, "Savage Tales: The Writings of Paul Gauguin" (Yale UP, 2019)

Pritipuspa Mishra, "Language and the Making of Modern India: Nationalism and the Vernacular in Colonial Odisha, 1803-1953" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Johannes Bronkhorst, "A Śabda Reader: Language in Classical Indian Thought" (Columbia UP, 2019)

Brian F. Harrison, "A Change is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political Conversations in a Divided America" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Melissa K. Merry, "Warped Narratives: Distortion in the Framing of Gun Policy" (U Michigan Press, 2020)

Gina Anne Tam, "Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960" (Cambridge UP, 2020)

Ruth Leys, "The Ascent of Affect: Genealogy and Critique" (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk" (Oxford UP, 2020)

D. Conley and J. Eckstein, "Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production" (U Alabama Press, 2020)

David R. Grimes, "The Irrational Ape: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk, and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World" (Simon and Schuster, 2019)

Luke Winslow, "American Catastrophe: Fundamentalism, Climate Change, Gun Rights, and the Rhetoric of Donald J. Trump" (Ohio State UP, 2020)

Jay Timothy Dolmage, "Disabled Upon Arrival: Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race" (OSU Press, 2018)

Shiu-Yin Sharon Yam, "Inconvenient Strangers: Transnational Subjects and the Politics of Citizenship" (Ohio State UP, 2019)

Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

A. M. Ruppel, "Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Jennifer Mercieca, "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)

Thomas A. Discenna, "Discourses of Denial: The Rhetoric of American Academic Labor" (Routledge, 2017)

Diana Senechal, "Mind over Memes: Passive Listening, Toxic Talk, and Other Modern Language Follies" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)

James M. Jasper, "Public Characters: The Politics of Reputation and Blame" (Oxford UP, 2020)

E. Michele Ramsey, "Major Decisions: College, Career, and the Case for the Humanities" (U Penn Press, 2019)

John R. Gallagher, "Update Culture and the Afterlife of Writing" (Utah State UP, 2020)

J. Packer and E. Stoneman, "A Feeling of Wrongness: Pessimistic Rhetoric on the Fringes of Popular Culture" (Penn State UP, 2019)

M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)

Adam J. MacLeod, "The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal" (Rowland and Littlefield, 2020)

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

Chelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)

Amy Koerber, “From Hysteria to Hormones: A Rhetorical History" (Penn State UP, 2018)

Matt Cook, "Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy" (MIT Press, 2020)

Andrew Ollett, "Language of the Snakes" (U California Press, 2017)

Cosmopolitan Printing in a Hybrid Language: A Discussion of the Sino-Malay Literary Tradition (1870-1949) with Dr Tom Hoogervorst

Dennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She" (Liveright, 2020)

Elise Berman, "Talking Like Children: Language and the Production of Age in the Marshall Islands" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

Kate Lockwood Harris, "Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses" (Oxford UP, 2019)

David Adger, "Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power" (Oxford UP, 2019)

K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)

Eleanor Gordon-Smith, "Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our Minds" (PublicAffairs, 2019)

H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt-Right" (Peter Lang, 2019)

Timothy J. Shaffer, "A Crisis of Civility? Political Discourse and its Discontents" (Routledge, 2019)

Céline Carayon, "Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas" (UNC Press, 2019)

Alexandra D'Arcy, "Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE" (John Benjamins, 2017)

Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)

Patricia Roberts-Miller, "Demagoguery and Democracy" (The Experiment, 2017)

Daniel Schwartz, "Ghetto: The History of a Word" (Harvard UP, 2019)

Jonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

Andreas Bernard, "Theory of the Hashtag" (Polity, 2019)

J. Neuhaus, "Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers" (West Virginia UP, 2019)

Don Kulick, "A Death in the Rainforest: How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea" (Algonquin Books, 2019)

Malcolm Keating, "Language, Meaning, and Use in Indian Philosophy" (Bloomsbury, 2019)

Jonathan G. Kline, "Keep Up Your Biblical Greek in 2 Minutes a Day" (Hendrickson, 2017)

Anne A. Cheng, "Ornamentalism" (Oxford UP, 2019)

Sharon Kirsch, "Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric" (U Alabama Press, 2014)

Derek Gaunt, "Ego, Authority, Failure: Using Emotional Intelligence Like a Hostage Negotiator to Succeed as a Leader" (New Degree Press, 2019)

Richard Averbeck, "Paradigm Change in Pentateuchal Research" (Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019)

Mary Kate McGowan, "Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm" (Oxford UP, 2019)

John Pat Leary, "Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism" (Haymarket Books, 2019)

Donnel Stern, "The Infinity of the Unsaid: Unformulated Experience, Language, and the Nonverbal" (Routledge, 2019)

A. M. Ruppell, "The Cambridge Introduction to Sanskrit" (Cambridge UP, 2017)

Shonaleeka Kaul, "The Making of Early Kashmir: Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini" (Oxford UP, 2018)

Leslie Hahner, "To Become an American: Immigrants and Americanization Campaigns of the Early 20th Century" (Michigan State UP, 2017)

Anne Cheng, "Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Discussion of Massive Online Peer Review and Open Access Publishing

Richard Salomon, "The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translation" (Wisdom Publications, 2018)

Bradford Vivian, "Commonplace Witnessing: Rhetorical Invention, Historical Remembrance, and Public Culture" (Oxford UP, 2017)

Richard Gombrich, "Buddhism and Pali" (Mud Pie Slices, 2018)

McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century" (Verso, 2017)

Mark Polizzotti, “Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto” (MIT Press, 2018)

Matthieu Villatte, “Mastering the Clinical Conversation: Language as Intervention” (Guilford Press, 2015)

Allyson Jule, “Speaking Up: Understanding Language and Gender” (Multilingual Matters, 2018)

Steven Gimbel, “Isn’t That Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy” (Routledge, 2018)

Jeanine Kraybill, “Unconventional, Partisan, and Polarizing Rhetoric: How the 2016 Election Shaped the Way Candidates Strategize, Engage, and Communicate” (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)

Karen Neander, “A Mark of the Mental: In Defense of Informational Teleosemantics” (MIT Press, 2017)

Good & Bad Arguments with Trudy Govier

Kees van Deemter, “Computational Models of Referring: A Study in Cognitive Science” (MIT Press, 2016)

Prakash Mondal, “Language, Mind and Computation” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

Geoffrey Sampson, “Writing Systems” (Equinox, 2015)

Chad Engelland, “Ostension: Word Learning and the Embodied Mind” (MIT Press, 2015)

Colin McGinn, “Philosophy of Language: the Classics Explained” (MIT Press, 2015)

Jason Stanley, “How Propaganda Works” (Princeton UP, 2015)

Terence Cuneo, “Speech and Morality: On the Metaethical Implications of Speaking” (Oxford,

Daniel Cloud, “The Domestication of Language” (Columbia UP, 2014)

Thom Scott-Phillips, “Speaking Our Minds” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

Ruth Finnegan, “Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Communication” (Routledge, 2014)

Peter Gardenfors, “The Geometry of Meaning: Semantics Based on Conceptual Spaces” (MIT Press, 2014)

David Adger, “A Syntax of Substance” (MIT Press, 2013)

Alistair Knott, “Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax” (MIT Press, 2012)

David Bleich, “The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics and the University” (Indiana UP, 2013)

Rodney H. Jones, “Health and Risk Communication: An Applied Linguistic Perspective” (Routledge, 2013)

Anne Cutler, “Native Listening: Language Experience and the Recognition of Spoken Words” (MIT Press, 2012)

Patrick Hanks, “Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations” (MIT Press, 2013)

Jonathan Bobaljik, “Universals of Comparative Morphology” (MIT Press, 2012)

Stephen E. Nadeau, “The Neural Architecture of Grammar” (MIT Press, 2012)

Nick J. Enfield, “The Anatomy of Meaning: Speech, Gesture, and Composite Utterances” (Cambridge UP, 2012)

Tony Veale, “Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2012)

Sherry Simon, “Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory” (Routledge, 2012)

Sam Leith, “Words Like Loaded Pistols: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama” (Basic Books, 2012)

Alexander Clark and Shalom Lappin, “Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)

Margaret Thomas, “Fifty Key Thinkers on Language and Linguistics” (Routledge, 2011)

Julie Sedivy and Greg Carlson, “Sold on Language: How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says About You” (Wiley, 2011)

Theo van Leeuwen, “The Language of Colour: An Introduction” (Routledge, 2011)

Jonathan Green, “Green’s Dictionary of Slang” (Hodder Education, 2010)

Debra Aarons, “Jokes and the Linguistic Mind” (Routledge, 2011)

David Crystal, “Just a Phrase I’m Going Through: My Life in Language” (Routledge, 2009)

Robert Lane Greene, “You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws and the Politics of Identity” (Delacorte Press, 2011)