How Do We Know What Words Mean? with Jessica Rett
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Dr. Jessica Rett is an Associate Professor in UCLA's Linguistics Department who joins Jonathan to discuss the power & nuances of words, breaks down the concepts of what "dog whistles" are, code-switching, how words evolve, endangered languages, and more. Find Jessica’s work at http://linguistics.ucla.edu/people/Rett/index.html A great podcast about linguistics: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html A website dedicated to linguistics: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ Information to help save endangered languages: http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/ For more music from Quiñ head to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Also Twitter and Facebook. Catch Jonathan on Queer Eye streaming now on Netflix. This episode is sponsored by Boy Erased (www.unerasedpodcast.com), Ulta Beauty (www.ulta.com), SeatGeek (code: JVN), Pluto Pillow (www.plutopillow.com code: CURIOUS), and Bombas (www.bombas.com/JVN code: JVN).
