«Talk like never», the new free audio (podcast) of the French language
Once a month, Laélia Véron, author of «Le français est à nous!» , proposes to deconstruct the clichés around the language with different guests. Talk Like Never" is a free audio (podcast) produced by Binge Audio with the support of the General Delegation to the French language and languages of France. It combines scientific rigour and pedagogical approach to unpack our report in French. To subscribe, it’s here.
Find below the different episodes of this free audio (podcast):
- Talk like never before #episode 10 - Francophonie, who owns French?
What do we mean when we talk about the Francophonie? Can we talk about a Tunisian, Moroccan or Algerian French? How can the French language be a vector of emancipation and oppression?
Guests: Mariem Guellouz, lecturer in language sciences at Université Paris Descartes, artist/performer and dancer, Kaoutar Harchi, sociologist of literary institutions, writer, Michel Francard, Emeritus Professor of UCL Louvain, linguist
- Talk like never before The words of Covid »
An episode crossed between Talk like never before » and « Schedule B ”, about the words and vocabulary that have been in place since the beginning of the pandemic. What do they reveal to us about the functioning of the language? Has the coronavirus been, is it still a language upheaval?
Guests: Thomas Rozec, Editor of Programme B and Maria Candea, research teacher at the University of Paris 3.
- Talk like never before #episode 9 - When the tongue signals
It is often summed up in a corner of our television screens. Despite recognition in French law in 2005, sign language (or LSF) is still perceived as a sub-language and suffers from many clichés.Why should we speak sign languages or place of sign language? What are the differences between sign and mime? Laélia Véron, with Saskia Mugnier, lecturer in language science at the University of Grenoble, offers an introduction to sign languages for the curious and those who think that the LSF is equivalent to a few grimaces.
- Talk like never before #episode 8 - Eat your mo(r)ts! What are insults for?
We often think that insults are useless, rude words, that we should eradicate them from our words. Yet they are a language invariant. A society, a language without insults, it does not exist. Why can’t we do without insults? What is the point of insults and what makes them powerful?
Guests: Maria Candea, scientific advisor of this podcast and sociolinguist at the University of Paris 3 and also by telephone (episode 100% confinement oblige) Dominique Lagorgette, professor of language sciences at the University of Savoie, who specializes in this question in diachrony, that is, in the study of the chronological evolution of the language
- Talk like never before #episode 7 - Neutral voice does not exist
- Talk like never before #episode 6 - Is your dictionary right
There is no dictionary, but dictionaries that are established by different individuals, that make different choices, choices that engage them politically.
To discuss this topic, guests are Marie-Hélène Drivaud, lexicographer and editorial director of little Robert, and Bernard Cerquiglini, professor of linguistics, scientific advisor to the Petit Larousse, at the head of a new dictionary project.
“Talk like never” is a free audio (podcast) animated by Laélia Véron, produced by Binge Audio and supported by the DGLFLF. It combines scientific rigour and pedagogical approach to unpack our relationship with French.
- Talk like never before #episode 5 – Accents are always wrong
- Talk like never before #episode 4 – Are dead languages still alive?
- Talk like never before #episode 3 – Have the essence of humour
- Talk like never before #episode 2 – Whose fault is it?
Bonus - Emoji said (made with Programme B): https://www.binge.audio/emoji-a-dit/
- Talk like never #episode 1- The others, those bad tongues
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