Translation is only part of the challenge for multinational companies. Words, slogans and symbols can take on entirely different meanings across cultures.

Beyond Words, with Karen Stollznow What is language, really? Where did it come from, and how did we figure it out? How do babies go from babbling to full sentences? Why can some people juggle multiple...

If you’ve never heard of psycholinguistics, you’re not alone. Even the name sounds a little intimidating, like something involving psychoanalysis, linguistics, and perhaps a couch.

Close Encounters of the Skeptical Kind with Matthew Baxter and Dr Karen Stollznow – The Alex, Fri 31 Jul 2026 - From flying saucers to haunted houses, join Matthew Baxter and Dr. Karen Stollznow as th...

Think saying um and uh makes you sound unprepared? These tiny hesitation words play an important role in how we think, speak, and communicate.

In 1866, the topic became so controversial that the Société de Linguistique de Paris banned discussions about language origins altogether.

Blake and Karen welcome back historian Dr. Joseph Gagné, a specialist in New France and the French colonial period of North America, to talk about Champ – the famous monster of Lake Champlain. Most of...

Accidental mix-ups of sounds, known as spoonerisms, are much more than a source of amusement for linguists and psychologists.

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Spoonerisms can be silly and make you laugh. But linguists see something more: a rare glimpse of how the mind plans speech before we even open our mouths.

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When most people think of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), they picture the formidable lexicographer whose A Dictionary of the English Language shaped English for generations.

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Think saying um and uh makes you sound unprepared? These tiny hesitation words play an important role in how we think, speak, and communicate.

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode contains detailed discussion of animal injuries and death. Both parts carry an explicit tag.⚠️ Blake and Karen welcome Lee Weiss, a religious studies scholar whose dee...

Spoonerisms can be silly and make you laugh. But linguists see something more: a rare glimpse of how the mind plans speech before we even open our mouths.

When most people think of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), they picture the formidable lexicographer whose A Dictionary of the English Language shaped English for generations.

In 1866, the topic became so controversial that the Société de Linguistique de Paris banned discussions about language origins altogether.

We don’t just hear speech, we actively reconstruct it. Here’s how the brain turns messy sound into meaning, and why we sometimes get it wrong.

In 1866, the topic became so controversial that the Société de Linguistique de Paris banned discussions about language origins altogether.

In 1866, the topic became so controversial that the Société de Linguistique de Paris banned discussions about language origins altogether.

The president used what's typically an affectionate nickname, but in a professional context like this one, it’s more "patronizing and dismissive," an expert says.