/tags/language Language en-US Copyright Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:01:00 GMT /show/embodied/2024-11-15/asl-power-of-sign-language-history-culture-art-deaf-hard-of-hearing American sign language is the third most commonly used language in the U.S., but for many Deaf folks, it's about so much more than communication. An author, a poet and two scholars share the history and culture of ASL. Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:01:00 GMT /show/embodied/2024-11-15/asl-power-of-sign-language-history-culture-art-deaf-hard-of-hearing Paige Miranda, Anita Rao /show/embodied-radio-show/2023-12-29/stuttering-out-loud-embracing-speech-diversity-and-fighting-shame-around-stuttering-language-stutter Stuttering has been the butt of many jokes. People who stutter are working to change that. Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:01:00 GMT /show/embodied-radio-show/2023-12-29/stuttering-out-loud-embracing-speech-diversity-and-fighting-shame-around-stuttering-language-stutter Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-12-29/stuttered-diversifying-the-way-we-speak-stuttering-speech-language-talking Stuttering occurs in every culture with a spoken language. So why do many communities treat it as a source of shame? Two speech-language pathologists and a comedian help Anita question cultural assumptions about stuttering and explore the growing movement to embrace speech diversity. Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:30:00 GMT /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-12-29/stuttered-diversifying-the-way-we-speak-stuttering-speech-language-talking Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-03-31/stuttered-diversifying-the-way-we-speak-stuttering-speech-language-talking Stuttering occurs in every culture with a spoken language. So why do many communities treat it as a source of shame? Two speech-language pathologists and a comedian help Anita question cultural assumptions about stuttering and explore the growing movement to embrace speech diversity. Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:30:00 GMT /podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-03-31/stuttered-diversifying-the-way-we-speak-stuttering-speech-language-talking Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /show/embodied-radio-show/2021-03-19/do-you-speak-relating-and-communicating-through-emoji Host Anita Rao talks about how emojis get created with Charles Carson, the managing editor of Duke University Press鈥� linguistics journal, American Speech, and a member of the Unicode emoji subcommittee. Susan Herring, professor of information science and linguistics at Indiana University Bloomington, also joins to talk about the linguistic use of emoji. Rao also gets hot takes on emoji usage from two teenagers: high school seniors Ellie Stevens and Amanda Tsuetaki, who are also a part of 吉彩网网站鈥檚 Youth Reporting Institute. Fri, 19 Mar 2021 17:02:32 GMT /show/embodied-radio-show/2021-03-19/do-you-speak-relating-and-communicating-through-emoji Kaia Findlay, Anita Rao /the-state-of-things/2019-12-27/producer-laura-pellicers-standout-stories-of-2019 In 2019, The State of Things met musical visionaries, people fighting to save endangered cultures, and folks who supported their neighbors through another鈥� Fri, 27 Dec 2019 16:25:09 GMT /the-state-of-things/2019-12-27/producer-laura-pellicers-standout-stories-of-2019 Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /education/2019-02-28/one-mans-fight-to-bring-an-ancestral-language-back-to-life Marty Richardson wanted to know more about his culture. He grew up with his family in Maryland, a ways removed from the Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe in鈥� Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:52:58 GMT /education/2019-02-28/one-mans-fight-to-bring-an-ancestral-language-back-to-life Laura Pellicer /race-demographics/2017-09-04/the-art-and-science-of-code-switching-meet-makeba-wilbourn Makeba Wilbourn has been immersed in the subtleties of language since she was a child.As the daughter of a northern white mother and southern black鈥� Mon, 04 Sep 2017 16:00:00 GMT /race-demographics/2017-09-04/the-art-and-science-of-code-switching-meet-makeba-wilbourn Will Michaels, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2017-09-04/the-art-and-science-of-code-switching-meet-makeba-wilbourn Makeba Wilbourn has been immersed in the subtleties of language since she was a child.As the daughter of a northern white mother and southern black鈥� Mon, 04 Sep 2017 16:00:00 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2017-09-04/the-art-and-science-of-code-switching-meet-makeba-wilbourn Will Michaels, Frank Stasio /education/2015-03-24/stuttertalk-coming-out-as-a-stutterer The stigma of stuttering forces many people who have the speech disorder to avoid talking at all costs.And for millions of people, the act of trying to鈥� Tue, 24 Mar 2015 15:51:26 GMT /education/2015-03-24/stuttertalk-coming-out-as-a-stutterer Will Michaels, Frank Stasio