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The Vocal FriesPerforming the NewsSend us a text Carrie and Megan talk with Dr Elia Powers, Associate Professor of Journalism at Towson University, about his book Performing the News: Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality.5 Podcasts for Word Nerds NY TimesWhy Does Trump Do That Weird Capitalization Thing? HuffPost (sometimes Gillon is misspelled as Gillion, as per uzh)Support the showContact us: Threads us @vocalfriespod Bluesky us @vocalfriespod.bsky.social Email us at vocalfriespod@gmail.com Thanks for listening and keep calm and fry on
2024-10-1450 min
Calico Culture PodcastEpisode 34 - Vocal Fries - Linguistic Sanguche with a side of Vocal FriesCheck out resources & links from this episode over at calicoculture.org - http://tiny.cc/34vocalfriesHmmm do these voices sound familiar? You're right! It's Drs. Megan Figueroa and Carrie Gillon of Vocal Fries! We dive into our favorite topic of linguistics and linguistic discrimination. Who is this podcast for? Everyone!Need help turning your organization into an inclusive place where everyone can shine? Book a call with us to get started. https://linktr.ee/calicoculture
2024-02-281h 09
Battle Tactics for Your Sexist WorkplaceFiring The Voice Police (Part 2) With The Vocal FriesWhen we asked the BTSW Facebook group whether they'd ever been voice policed on the job, we got a ton of stories and responses. So many that we decided we needed to dedicate a whole episode just to those stories. So today is Part 2 of our conversation with the hosts of the excellent podcast The Vocal Fries - the podcast about linguistic discrimination. Megan Figueroa is a linguist, writer, and research scientist, and Carrie Gillon is also a linguist and the language planner and researcher for the Squamish nation in British Columbia. If you haven't...
2022-05-2340 minBattle Tactics for Your Sexist WorkplaceFiring The Voice Police (Part 1) With The Vocal FriesWe usually ask folks to support our show on Patreon. Today, we wanted to suggest places to support crucial abortion services. Planned Parenthood Shout Your AbortionNational Abortion Federation **NOTE: During this episode, we refer to Rachel Jeantel by her last name only. We wanted to clarify and use her full name here. Rachel Jeantel was a primary prosecution witness at Trayvon Martin's murder trial. Court officials claimed she was "hard to understand" and ultimately her testimony was dismissed as not credible.**A couple months ago, Jeannie asked the...
2022-05-0938 min
Unstandardized EnglishOn Podcasting and Linguistic Justice, with Megan Figueroa and Carrie Gillon of The Vocal Fries (S3E13)On this episode, his first as a member of the Connectd Podcast network, host JPB Gerald brings on the hosts of the Vocal Fries, Drs. Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa, to discuss podcasting and their approaches to justice in language and outside of the siloes of academia.If you like the show and can afford to, please support the show on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/unstandardized
2022-03-071h 06
Troublesome Terps67: The Translation & Interpreting PodcastivalPodcasts are everywhere, so what to listen to?
To help you along here, the Troublesome Terps reached out to some of our favorite language related podcast-superstars and invited them to join our first ever live #podcastival.
The goal was to celebrate the language industry at large in all its beautiful diversity with all its shades and wrinkles and shine a spotlight on these fabulous contributions - if we missed your favorite language podcast, do let us know and enjoy our #podcastival!Special Guests: Ada Volkmer, Carrie Gillon, Cate Hamilton, Corinne McKay, Eve Lindemuth Bodeux, Florian...
2021-11-251h 51
Not My Problem Podcast1.9 - Language? Not My Problem!In this episode, we discuss how the language we use has an impact on the people around us. We discuss examples and highlight contexts of when language may be hurtful or problematic. We then suggest easy fixes to these situations and why making this change can have such a big impact.
Shout outs:
READS: “Mindset”, Dr. Carol Dweck
LISTEN: “The Vocal Fries Pod” Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa
WATCH: "The Significance of Linguistic Profiling" - Dr. John Baugh
2021-01-1649 min
New Books in Urban StudiesSarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon" (U Toronto Press, 2018)Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of the region shed light on issues of language revitalization and on the meaning of Indigeneity in contemporary Brazil.São Gabriel has a high proportion of Indigenous people (~85%) and incredible linguistic diversity, with 19 Indigenous languages still being spoken in th...
2020-09-2253 min
New Books in LanguageSarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon" (U Toronto Press, 2018)Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of the region shed light on issues of language revitalization and on the meaning of Indigeneity in contemporary Brazil.São Gabriel has a high proportion of Indigenous people (~85%) and incredible linguistic diversity, with 19 Indigenous languages still being spoken in th...
2020-09-2255 min
New Books in Latin American StudiesSarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon" (U Toronto Press, 2018)Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of the region shed light on issues of language revitalization and on the meaning of Indigeneity in contemporary Brazil.São Gabriel has a high proportion of Indigenous people (~85%) and incredible linguistic diversity, with 19 Indigenous languages still being spoken in th...
2020-09-2253 min
New Books in Native American StudiesSarah Shulist, "Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon" (U Toronto Press, 2018)Transforming Indigenity: Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon (University of Toronto Press) examines the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for the Indigenous languages of the region shed light on issues of language revitalization and on the meaning of Indigeneity in contemporary Brazil.São Gabriel has a high proportion of Indigenous people (~85%) and incredible linguistic diversity, with 19 Indigenous languages still being spoken in th...
2020-09-2253 min
AccentricityFake Accents* Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa make The Vocal Fries, a podcast where they investigate and dismantle linguistic prejudice in all its forms. They have loads of episodes about different linguistic issues and varieties. If you fancy learning more about different varieties of American and Canadian English, you could start with this one about Southern American English, this one about Newfoundland English, or this one about Philadelphia English.* Lauren Gawne is a Lecturer in linguistics at La Trobe University. Her work focuses on understanding how people use grammar and gesture, with a particular focus on Tibetan languages in...
2020-06-2249 minNew Books in LanguageJennifer Mercieca, "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump" (Texas A&M UP, 2020)Polarization, a disaffected and frustrated electorate, and widespread distrust of government, media, and traditional politicians set the stage in 2016 for an unprecedented presidential contest. For many, Donald Trump’s campaign speeches and other rhetoric seemed on the surface to be simplistic, repetitive, and disorganized. In Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump (Texas A&M University Press, 2020), Jennifer Mercieca shows that Trump’s rhetoric was anything but.As a political communication expert, Mercieca describes the Trump campaign’s expert use of the common demagogic rhetorical techniques. These strategies were meant to appeal to a segment of an...
2020-05-2754 min
New Books in Australian and New Zealand StudiesChelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at Dixie State University and Senior Research Analyst of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education. She became involved in the homeschool reform movement as a result of the abuse and educational neglect experienced by her homeschooled family members.A Grammar of Belep is a reference grammar that provides a full grammatical description of the previously-undocumented Austronesian language variety known as Belep. Belep is spoken by approximately 1600 people in New Caledonia, primarily in the Belep Isles...
2020-04-0955 min
New Books in Pacific StudiesChelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at Dixie State University and Senior Research Analyst of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education. She became involved in the homeschool reform movement as a result of the abuse and educational neglect experienced by her homeschooled family members.A Grammar of Belep is a reference grammar that provides a full grammatical description of the previously-undocumented Austronesian language variety known as Belep. Belep is spoken by approximately 1600 people in New Caledonia, primarily in the Belep Isles...
2020-04-0952 minNew Books in LanguageChelsea McCracken, "A Grammar of Belep" (Walter de Gruyter, 2019)Chelsea McCracken talks about her new book A Grammar of Belep (Walter de Gruyter, 2019). McCracken is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at Dixie State University and Senior Research Analyst of the Coalition for Responsible Home Education. She became involved in the homeschool reform movement as a result of the abuse and educational neglect experienced by her homeschooled family members.A Grammar of Belep is a reference grammar that provides a full grammatical description of the previously-undocumented Austronesian language variety known as Belep. Belep is spoken by approximately 1600 people in New Caledonia, primarily in the Belep Isles...
2020-04-0955 minNew Books in LanguageDennis Baron, "What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She" (Liveright, 2020)Today Dennis Baron talks about his new book What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He & She (Liveright, 2020). Baron is professor emeritus in English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has written many books about language and its connection to culture. What’s Your Pronoun addresses an important cultural question about women’s rights and the rights and identities of non-binary people, and reveals how we got from he and she to zie, hir, and singular they. Pronouns have sparked a national (and international) debate, prompting new policies about what pronouns to use in schools, workplaces and even prisons. Baron describes the...
2020-03-1744 minNew Books in LanguageAlexandra D'Arcy, "Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE" (John Benjamins, 2017)Like is a ubiquitous feature of English with a deep history in the language, exhibiting regular and constrained variable grammars over time. Alexandra D'Arcy's book Discourse-Pragmatic Variation in Context: Eight hundred years of LIKE (John Benjamins, 2017) explores the various contexts of like, each of which contributes to the reality of contemporary vernaculars: its historical context, its developmental context, its social context, and its ideological context. The final chapter examines the ways in which these contexts overlap and inform current understanding of acquisition, structure, change, and embedding. The volume also features an extensive appendix, containing numerous examples of like in it...
2019-12-041h 11
LexitectureEpisode 53: A Superfluity of Varmint Integrity (Feat. Helen Zaltzman!)In this super special episode, the one and only Helen Zaltzman (of The Allusionist and other wonderful podcasts) joins us to talk about collective nouns for animals (and hermits?), Amy stays untouched and whole with "integrity" and Ryan goes this way and that with "varmint". Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each episode, a Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) each present their current favourite word and talk about its origins, current use, and try to puzzle out how it may have gone from A to B. If you love thinking and talking about words, word o...
2019-11-181h 04New Books in LanguageJonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)Jonathan Rosa's new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public school, whose student body is more than 90% Mexican and Puerto Rican, to analyze the racialization of language and its relationship to issues of power and national identity. It focuses specifically on youth socialization to U.S. Latinidad as a contemporary site of political anxiety, raciolinguistic transformation, and...
2019-11-041h 04
New Books in Latino StudiesJonathan Rosa, "Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race" (Oxford UP, 2019)Jonathan Rosa's new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the emergence of linguistic and ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty-four months of ethnographic and sociolinguistic fieldwork in a Chicago public school, whose student body is more than 90% Mexican and Puerto Rican, to analyze the racialization of language and its relationship to issues of power and national identity. It focuses specifically on youth socialization to U.S. Latinidad as a contemporary site of political anxiety, raciolinguistic transformation, and...
2019-11-041h 01
LexitectureEpisode 51: Fast PancakeIn this episode, Amy discovers the best eponym of all time with "pancake" and Ryan goes quickly and not at all with "fast". Lexitecture is a podcast about words. In each episode, a Canadian (Ryan) and a Scot (Amy) each present their current favourite word and talk about its origins, current use, and try to puzzle out how it may have gone from A to B. If you love thinking and talking about words, word origins, or just random bits of head-scratching language trivia, this may be the show for you! We also do a q...
2019-10-211h 07
The Food ChainWhen is a burger not a burger?Vegetarian and vegan food companies are under attack for using words like ‘burger', ‘sausage’, or ‘steak’ to describe their meat-free products. The meat industry and some politicians argue such words can only be used to describe foods that came from an animal and that plant-based alternatives should come up with new names to avoid consumer confusion. But can you really claim ownership of a word? And what’s in a name anyway – is this argument about transparency and trust or marketing and profits? Willem Van Weede, CEO of Dutch plant-based food company Vivera argues the case with Jess...
2019-07-0426 min
Limited EngagementLE 117 - Carrie Gillon and Megan FigueroaThis week on the show, a conversation on linguistic discrimination, the universal sex appeal of Jeff Bridges, and much more with Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa, hosts of one of my favorite podcasts, The Vocal Fries, where their motto is one I can get behind: Don't be an asshole!
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This episode is brought to you by PHX Film Collective, presenting a special 50th Anniversary screening of Midnight Cowboy in partnership with...
2019-06-101h 16
Get your WIT togetherEpisode 5 - Vocal Fry with THE Vocal FriesLike this week we like sat down with linguistic experts Carrie Gillon and like Megan Figueroa, hosts of the Vocal Fries Podcast. We like talked about like why vocal fry is totally important and how like valley girls like Kim Kardashian are like seriously impacting the way women like speak! But seriously, we covered what vocal fry is, up speak, filler words and reclaiming the fry! Obviously also discussed literal fries.
2019-01-2937 min
Troublesome Terps32: Our year 2018 in review2018 was truly another blockbuster year for the Troublesome Terps. Not only was our first - and certainly not last - live event in London a bona-fide hit (thanks to all the supporters and attendees!), as always we covered a wide range of different and super-interesting topics this year.
Humor in interpreting and our very best travel tips and tricks provided some levity, discussions on feelings/emotions in interpreting and why interpreting research matters, provided some serious food for thought. Our very first AMA (As Me Anything) was also a great experience thanks to the fantastic questions we...
2019-01-241h 21
The Lou Cappetta ShowS.2, Ep. 3, Carrie Gillon & Megan Figueroa (Linguists & Hosts of The Vocal Fries Podcast)This week, linguists Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa join Lou to talk about their podcast about linguistic discrimination. They share some interesting details on how we use language as a way to discriminate, how Lou sent their fan's into un uproar over the existence/nonexistence of Central jersey during his guest appearance on their show, and then close things out with a fun game of "Who said it...trump or Voldemort?".
2018-10-0757 min
Troublesome Terps21: Looking for Trouble with the Vocal FriesHungry for more podcast? This month, the Terps are looking for trouble with the tasty Vocal Fries! Together with Vocal Fries hosts Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa, Jonathan and the Alexes discuss a wide variety of different topics from linguistic discrimination to gendered language to code switching and what's up with French in Canada or with Spanish in Arizona.Special Guests: Carrie Gillon and Megan Figueroa.Links:The Vocal Fries Podcast — The podcast about linguistic discrimination.How hard is it to fake an accent?
2018-04-181h 36