philosophy Archives – A Way with Words

Forty-Eleven Zillion (episode #1579)

Posted by Grant Barrett on October 11, 2021 · Add Comment

Nominative Determinism Quiz — When Names Match Professions

Posted by Grant Barrett on April 17, 2021 · Add Comment

A Brown Study

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Someone Who is Always to Blame

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Deviled Eggs (episode #1554)

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Play It by Ear (episode #1553)

Posted by Grant Barrett on August 31, 2020 · Add Comment

How does social context shape our perception of language? When hiking the Appalachian Trail, a young woman from Wyoming found that fellow hikers assumed she was from another country, not only because of how she spoke, but also how she looked. Sometimes our perception of other people’s accents have more to do with social context [...]
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