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New Books in Language

Interviews with Scholars of Language about their New BooksSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/language

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Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia

What does a map of Southeast Asia as a pegasus have to do with translation and Southeast Asia? How can we think of trans... Read more

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Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)

Courtney Adams Wooten, "Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Women's Reproductive Choices" (Utah State UP, 2023)

Childfree and Happy: Transforming the Rhetoric of Womens' Reproductive Choices (Utah State University Press, 2023) exami... Read more

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Philip Kirby and Margaret J. Snowling, "Dyslexia: A History" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)

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