In this interview, we talk to Randy Harris about the controversies surrounding the generative semantics movement in American linguistics of the 1960s and 70s.

In this interview, we talk to Chris Knight about Chomsky, pure science and the US military-industrial complex.

In this interview, we talk to Nick Riemer about how linguistic theory and political ideology can interact.

In this interview, we talk to Ingrid Piller about her forthcoming co-authored book Life in a New Language.

In this interview, we talk to Dan Everett about the life and work of the American pragmatist philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce and Everett’s application of Peirce’s ideas to create a Peircean linguistics.

In this interview, we talk to Michael Lynch about the history of conversation analysis and its connections to ethnomethodology.

In this interview, we talk to Ghil‘ad Zuckermann about language reclamation and revival in Australia and around the world.

In this interview, we talk to Nick Thieberger about the value of historical documentation for linguistic research, and how this documentation can be preserved and made accessible today and in the future in digital form.

In this episode, we talk to Mary Laughren about research into the languages of Central Australia in the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on the contributions of American linguist Ken Hale.

In this episode, we examine the formalist aspects of the linguistic work of Edward Sapir and Leonard Bloomfield, and see how their methods were turned into the doctrines of distributionalism by the following generation.