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
From Sci Fi to Language Scholarship: Interview with Giorgia Troiani
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Jay Mason
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Season 1
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Episode 4
In this podcast, I interview Giorgia Troiani , a researcher at UCSB. Join me to learn more about the path she took to becoming a linguistics scholar (hint: an interest in Sci Fi served as an early spark!) and how her journey took her to interesting places like Siberia. Giorgia shares how grammatical forms emerge from the way people use language in everyday life and is impacted by both cognitive and social factors, and how language can be a powerful tool for fighting oppression. We'll also hear about how far the field of computational linguistics has come, and her work on a software to interpret language patterns.