NB Language

New Books in #Language is an author-interview #podcast in the @NewBooksNetwork. 🎧 on Apple Podcasts: #Translation #Rhetoric

[NB Language @NewBooksLang]

Why is Jane Austen's EMMA considered a work of fiction when it says true things about 19th century England? Catharine Abell discusses FICTION: A Philosophical Analysis (@OUPPhilosophy), her unifying account of the epistemology and metaphysics of fiction👇

https://t.co/R14kuCJavD

[NB Language @NewBooksLang]

INDIAN PERSPECTIVES on CONSCIOUSNESS, LANGUAGE, and SELF (@Routledge_Phil) shows how 10th century philosophers in Kashmir argued for the existence of a self on the basis of the interrelationship between linguistic concepts and mental experience. Tune in👇

https://t.co/HMLIzlrk7n

[Lee M Pierce they #SaveRoeVWade @RhetoricLee]

If you haven’t listened to the latest @NewBooksLang interview with @ZIJackson you are missing out. @KamalaHarris is headed to the White House but #antiblackness is still endemic to the American way

[NB Education 📚 @NewBooksEdu]

At a time when universities are optimizing structurally and streamlining pedagogically, @ProfRMCarlo's TRANSFORMING ETHOS (@UPColorado) pleads the case for a university where character is formed. Learn more about rhetoric as a way of life on the podcast👇

https://t.co/YAgFXBe8th

[NB Language @NewBooksLang]

Illustrating how the properties of different languages are interwoven with their literary traditions, HOW DEAD LANGUAGES WORK(@OUPAcademic) shows how the flavor of a language is always lost a little in translation. Coulter George joins @cmalcolmkeating👇

https://t.co/lIWUakpNbg

[NB Hindu Studies 📚 @NewBooksHindu]

THE AUTHORITY of FEMALE SPEECH in INDIAN GODDESS TRADITIONS (@Palgrave) excavates the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially (wo)mansplaining. Anway Mukhopadhyay joins us👇

https://t.co/wkH9SpaY1s

[Lee M Pierce they #SaveRoeVWade @RhetoricLee]

Jeremy Glick’s THE BLACK RADICAL TRAGIC is a must read. We recently connected to talk Black revolutionary thought, aesthetics, and questions of radical leadership and mass participation. Stay tuned for the interview coming soon to @NewBooksLang @NewBooksNetwork

[NB Anthropology 📚 @NewBooksAnthro]

Based on extensive fieldwork, A DOG PISSING at the EDGE of a PATH (@McGillQueensUP) explores the meaning and use of over 500 animal metaphors employed by the Nage people of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores. Gregory Forth discusses his research ⤵️

https://t.co/rDjjbzkgKh

[Lee M Pierce they #SaveRoeVWade @RhetoricLee]

Just wrapped an illuminating interview with @ZIJackson about the new book Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World. Stay tuned for the interview coming soon from @NewBooksLang in your favorite podcasting app! #becominghuman #bookinterview

[Lee M Pierce they #SaveRoeVWade @RhetoricLee]

Check out my latest interview with Allison Rowland about zoetropes—how language raises/lowers the value of a life #teamrhetorics #newbooks ⁦@NewBooksLang⁩ https://t.co/AgrduBrbLw

[NB Philosophy 📚 @NewBooksPhil]

SAUSSURE'S LINGUISTICS, STRUCTURALISM, and PHENOMENOLOGY (@PalgravePhil) questions sedimented ideas about #Structuralism, #PostStructuralism, #Phenomenology, and the object of #Linguistics--#Language.

🎙️Beata Stawarska joins @s_k_tyson on the podcast👇

https://t.co/XdoZNMAHAq

[NB Language @NewBooksLang]

TRANSFORMING INDIGENEITY (@utpress) 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 discusses the book on the podcast👇

https://t.co/uqIDYviHld

[NB Language @NewBooksLang]

THE BLOOMSBURY RESEARCH HANDBOOK of INDIAN PHILOSOPHY of LANGUAGE (@BloomsburyAcad) spans over 2,000 years of inquiry into language in the Indian subcontinent. Learn more as Alessandro Graheli discusses the project with @cmalcolmkeating on the podcast ⤵️

https://t.co/jztbq519hx

[NB Language @NewBooksLang]

🎙️@cmalcolmkeating has @PritipuspaMish1 on to talk about LANGUAGE and the MAKING of MODERN INDIA (@OUPAcademic), her book on how the idea of the vernacular has a double effect, serving as a means for exclusion and inclusion in the province of Odisha. 👂👇

https://t.co/jXuZGGTcgf

[NB Language @NewBooksLang]

In A ŚABDA READER (@ColumbiaUP), Johannes Bronkhorst makes the case--through an extensive introduction and select translations of important texts--that language has a crucial role in Indian thought.

🎙️Bronkhorst joins @cmalcolmkeating on the podcast👇

https://t.co/8U4ASK3PhB

[NB East Asian Studies 📚 @NewBooksEAsia]

DIALECT and NATIONALISM in CHINA, 1860-1960 (@CUPAcademic) explains how people in China have navigated the country’s linguistic landscape while also negotiating profound questions over the meanings of modern Chinese identity itself. 🎙️@DGTam86 joins us ↙️

https://t.co/o7JZRdQndl

[NB Language @NewBooksLang]

Emotions have become a major topic of research not only in the sciences but throughout a wide swath of the humanities and social sciences as well. 🎙️@RhetoricLee's guest for this episode is Ruth Leys, author of THE ASCENT of AFFECT (@UChicagoPress). 👂👇

https://t.co/5knF3dmy6G

[Heather Suzanne Woods @heatherswoods]

We were honored to be interviewed by the superlative @RhetoricLee for @NewBooksNetwork. You can find that link here: https://t.co/TyaaFxlR14

[NB Language @NewBooksLang]

We live in an age where catastrophe not only functions as a dominant organizing rhetoric but also as an appealing and unifying force for many communities across America. Luke Winslow, author of AMERICAN CATASTROPHE (@ohiostatepress), joins @RhetoricLee ⬇️

https://t.co/nURZRyGxGR

[Lee M Pierce they #SaveRoeVWade @RhetoricLee]

Check out my latest interview with @sharonyamsy about Hong Kong’s marginalized groups and deliberative empathy https://t.co/hDHuADc5IK #newbooks #HongKong @NewBooksLang