Paul’s guest for September 2021 is the respected linguist David Crystal, who is making his third appearance on the podcast. Inspired by Let’s Talk, one of David’s latest books, Paul and David converse about … conversation itself.
To learn about David, visit his website and Wikipedia, or listen to David’s two prior appearances on this podcast: June 2018 and November 2019.
(Bach’s Cello Suite #1 in G Major BMV 1007 Prelude (by Ivan Dolgunov) courtesy of Jamendo Licensing.)
Paul’s guest for November 2019 is eminent linguist David Crystal. Paul and David discuss the history of Received Pronunciation (RP), also known as the Queen’s English, BBC English, and Standard British English. They also discuss the newer dialect often referred to as Estuary.
For more information about David, visit DavidCrystal.com, OriginalPronunciation.com, and ShakespearesWords.com.
Paul’s guest for June 2018 is David Crystal, one of the world’s most famous linguists and the leader of the modern movement we call OP: Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare’s works. David explains the fascinating linguistic subfield called Pragmatics, which he defines as the “study of the choices that you make when you use language, the reasons for those choices, and the effects that the choices convey.” See David’s websites: http://originalpronunciation.com/, www.davidcrystal.com, and https://www.shakespeareswords.com/.
