The Language Project Podcast
Come and take a listen to all the ways that language impacts our society! In this podcast we'll explore various topics related to language - everything from how it defines us as humans, how it manifests itself in our technology and our media and arts and impacts the way we think, and how its automation makes our lives easier but also brings its own set of ethical challenges. I'll be joined by many special guests whose own lives have been notably impacted by language, as well as experts in the field of linguistics.
The Language Project Podcast
Vision and Language: Pt 2 with Professor Elsner
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Jay Mason
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Season 2
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Episode 16
Come join me as I continue my discussion with Professor Elsner. In this podcast we learn about the connection between language and vision, and how language can help us understand visual systems and vice versa. What does the popular children's game Where's Waldo tell us about how we describe and process visual cues? What is the concept of visual salience and how does it relate to language? We discuss the Gricean process and how we make inferences from what is unspoken, and how this concept extends to how we describe what we see.