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🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On today’s episode of Spectacular Vernacular, hosts Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer recap the recent New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference for sociolinguistics. They also interview Deborah Tannen, a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and best-selling author about conversational style. And finally, Barry Lam, host of Slate’s philosophy podcast Hi-Phi Nation stops by for some wordplay. We hope you paid attention in your philosophy classes for this next quiz! You could win a year’s membership to Slate Plus. Do you have any language questions or fun facts to share? Email us at [email protected]. Produced by Jasmine Ellis. Subscribe to Slate Plus. It’s only $1 for the first month. To learn more, go to slate.com/spectacularplus. Here are some notes and references from this week’s show: NWAV 49 (the 49th annual meeting of New Ways of Analyzing Variation) Tweet by Cindy Noir (@Ebonie_QT) that inspired people to record Memojis code-switching between “home voices” and “work voices” Ben’s 2011 New York Times essay, “Twitterology: A New Science?” Twitter’s new Academic Research track Deborah Tannen’s recent New York Times essay on cooperative overlapping, “In Real Life, Not All Interruptions Are Rude” Sari Rachel discussing cooperative overlapping on TikTok Deborah Tannen’s 2005 book, Conversational Style Barry Lam’s philosophy podcast, Hi-Phi Nation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hello, I'm Nicole Holiday, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
1:06.3	And I'm Ben Zimmer, language columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
1:09.1	And this is spectacular vernacular, a podcast where we not only explore language.
1:13.2	We also play with it. This week our special guest is Professor
1:16.0	Deborah Tannen, a professor, bestselling author and leading expert on conversational
1:20.1	style and how we interact with each other.
1:22.0	And later for our word play quiz, we'll try to stump Barry Lamb, host of Slate's philosophy
1:27.3	podcast, Hi-Fi Nation.
1:29.2	So Ben, it was recently the most wonderful time of the year for social linguists. And you
1:33.6	and I had the pleasure of hanging out at the big conference called New Ways of Analyzing
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