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39: Is This a Reference? (with Sylvia Sierra)

39: Is This a Reference? (with Sylvia Sierra)

Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. · Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård

November 1, 20211h 41mExplicit

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Show Notes

You probably communicate with your friends using media references all the time. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But why do we include media references, when we could just talk? Turns out it has a lot to do with identity, building social relationships, and communication — all the stuff that language normally does.

We're having a media-heavy discussion with Dr Sylvia Sierra about her book Millennials Talking Media: Creating Intertextual Identities in Everyday Conversation.