In this episode, I got to speak with Dr. Emily Curtis! We talked about combatting harmful prescriptivism with fascinating linguistic knowledge, the importance of explaining jargon in academic papers, linguistic stereotypes in much-loved media, and more.
<a href="https://wals.info/">The World Atlas of Language Structures</a> is the database/map of languages and their features mentioned near the end of the episode!
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R75uXEqXw3FMqQk8r1G-5dfnqvrh0vqdoeOdWbyySpQ/edit?usp=sharing">Episode transcript</a> by Graham Blair
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3. Dr. Virginia Dawson

Asking "What is linguistics?" and answering with what it looks like out in the world, starting with the linguists at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington.