147: The Language Beat (with Michael Erard)

Michael Erard has been covering language in major publications for a good long while. What has he learned, and what can linguistic communication take from his work? Michael sits down for a chat with Daniel and Hedvig to talk about his new book The Language Beat: Essays and Reporting on Language and Life.

Timestamps

00:00 Start

01:21 Getting the book together: Save your contracts!

04:22 Getting into lingcomm

06:38 Popular things v things you're interested in

10:48 Getting the Spidey sense

19:30 Public reactions and book tour insights

23:22 Lingcomm involves a little bit of pastoral care

26:55 How has the lingcomm landscape changed?

34:05 Persistent misunderstandings

39:48 Are we seeing a lingcomm explosion?