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How is language like a game of charades? According to a new book, quite a lot. Charades players and language users improvise and work together to create meaning in a situation, and they get better at it as they reuse elements and build up patterns.
Drs Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater explain their vision of language to Daniel and Hedvig on this episode of Because Language.
105 or 500 (live with Kelly Wright and friends)
104: Dogwhistles (with Elin McCready, Lizzy Hanks, Jesse Egbert, and Rikker Dockum)
103: Unequal Englishes (with Ruanni Tupas and Nicole Holliday)
102: Signed Language Mailbag (with Adam Schembri, Christy Filipich, and Mark Ellison)
101: Talkin' Chomsky (with Katie Martin and Abduweli Ayup)
99: Gender in Germany (with Rob Tegethoff and Ciarán from Corner Späti)
98: Origin Uncertain (with Anatoly Liberman)
97: The Dictionary of Fine Distinctions (with Eli Burnstein)
96: Language City (with Ross Perlin)
95: Why the Far-Right Demagogues Language (with Caitlin Green and Maureen Kosse)
93: Stop! Grammar Time (live with Ellen Jovin and friends)
92: In the First 600 Milliseconds (with Rachel Nordlinger)
91: Linguistic Time Machine, part 2: Prehistory
90: Enpoopification (with Grant Barrett and Tim Brookes)
89: Words of the Week of the Year 2023 (with Cory Doctorow and friends)
88: Linguistic Time Machine, part 1: History
87: Trans-Inclusive (with Andrew Perfors)
86: Mailbag of Dog Sushi (with Nicole Holliday)
85: The Dictionary People (with Sarah Ogilvie)
84: Diego's Discourse (with Diego Diaz)
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