Podcast appearances and mentions of walt wolfram

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 10: The Ebb and Flow of Coastal Carolina Languages Hosts: Prue Salasky and Jill Winkowski Date: Oct. 31, 2024 Length: 34.15 min Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each month Co-hosts Prue Salasky and Jill Winkowski delve into the history and language of Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands, part of the Outer Banks, OBX, of North Carolina, our neighbors to the south and part of our geographical culture in Hampton Roads. They interview two experts on the region. Scott Dawson, whose family traces its roots back to the 1600s on Hatteras, has devoted countless hours to researching the language and culture of the Croatoan people and their early encounters with English settlers. An amateur archaeologist and historian, he has identified artifacts and produced word lists of the Carolina Algonquian spoken on Hatteras Island when the first English settlers arrived in the 16th century. (https://www.coastalcarolinaindians.com/category/research-databases/blair-a-rudes-indigenous-language-collection/). He credits the efforts of English scientist and polymath Thomas Harriot (Hariot) working with Croatoans Manteo and Wanchese for much of what's known today about the indigenous residents, their culture and language. We also learn more about Thomas Harriot and his scientific accomplishments, among the greatest of his generation. Dawson is a founder of the Croatoan Archaeological Society (http://www.cashatteras.com) and also opened a museum on Hatteras to tell a different version of the “lost colony” of Roanoke Island (https://www.lostcolonymuseum.com). . Linguistically, sociolinguist Prof. Walt Wolfram, William C. Friday Distinguished University Professor at N.C. State, places the dialects spoken on the Outer Banks islands as part of the Tidewater diaspora. For example, the brogue spoken on Ocracoke, he says, is closer to that of Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay than to that of nearby mainland communities. A scholar of language variation, Wolfram contrasts the vibrancy of the distinctive English dialect of the Lumbee in Robeson County with the rapidly declining use of Ocracoke's traditional dialect. He is also the director of the North Carolina Language and Life Project which documents dialects and speech variations. Listeners can find speech samples for the Lumbee, Ocracoke Islanders and many more by searching for The North Carolina Language and Life Project on YouTube. The changes in language use and dialect over 400 years in these coastal communities first tells the story of English settlement and its impact on indigenous communities. Then ongoing changes reveal shifting demographics and how geography intersects with language and identity.

In this episode of Languaging in Hampton Roads, co-hosts Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky look into communication in the deaf community. They explore sign language, its history and variations. In particular they focus on the development of BASL, Black American Sign Language and American Sign Language in the southern U.S.  Through an interview with a nationally certified interpreter for the deaf, his interview of a deaf woman in Virginia Beach, and conversations with local and national experts, including NC State Prof. Walt Wolfram, on signing, they reveal the complexities of the language and pressures within the deaf community.  --Jubal Metzger-Smith's full interview,  its audio recording and transcript is available at  https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/tidewatervoices/  or find it by searching Tidewater Voices in your browser --The Chesapeake campus of Tidewater Community College offers a 2-year associate's degree in ASL and interpretation for the deaf. 757-822-1111 --The Hearing Loss Association of America, Virginia Beach chapter, includes all the cities in Hampton Roads. It conducts monthly hybrid meetings on the second Saturday of the month at Fortis College, 6300 Center Drive, Norfolk, Va. Find it at www.hearingloss.org --The Virginia Hearing Loss Support Network meets in Virginia Beach on the fourth Saturday of each month. On Facebook or vahlsn.info@gmail.com. --The Wells Theatre, 108 E. Tazewell St, Norfolk, Va. 23510 includes a signing interpreter for at least one show per production. (757) 627-1234. --Find the videos and vignettes for the Language and Life Project at North Carolina State University on YouTube.  Send feedback, questions, topic suggestions, etc. to languaginghr@gmail.com CREDITS: Original music by Skye Zentz; Languaging logo by Patty McDonald; technical help by Michael Lusby at the Sound Studio at Slover Library in Norfolk, Va. Languaging Hampton Roads is written and produced by Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky

Have y'all ever driven down the East Coast? I don't mean to spoil the magic for you but I gotta say, it's basically a straight shot through a wall of trees. So I was pretty excited when I noticed a few colorful billboards dotting my path. That excitement quickly turned to disgust when I realized that those billboards were super-duper racist. These billboards not only appropriated Mexican culture but also used broken English and made fun of Mexican accents. Yikes.  In this episode we break down linguistic racism and dig deep into what it looks like and what we can do about it. Press play to learn: What linguistic racism looks like. The detrimental effects of linguistic racism. Why it's so important to talk to our children about unfamiliar accents.  Concrete ways to introduce unfamiliar accents to our children and fight linguistic racism.   Join us for a Policy Party You know what anti-racism looks like in your home, now let's take it into our communities! Join us for a Policy Party on Tuesday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. ET, where Lindsay Dusard will talk to us about refugee allyship! At each Policy Party, we hang out over Zoom with experts from community-based organizations who will help us understand the issues and policies relevant to their area of expertise. Each party focuses on a different subject — anything from immigration to environmental justice and more! You'll leave each party with specific actionable steps you can take to make your community more compassionate, inclusive and anti-racist. My friend Lindsay will join us to discuss how we can be better allies to members of the refugee community. She has worked in refugee resettlement for over eight years and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, where her work focuses on understanding factors related to refugee and immigrant students' sense of belonging, wel-lbeing and success in the U.S. school system. First Name Basis Patreon members will receive free admission, or you can purchase a one-time Policy Party ticket at firstnamebasis.org/policyparty. If you can't attend the Policy Party, replays are also available with admission.    Check out our Thanksgiving resources Thanksgiving is next week, and we have a gaggle of free resources for you — including multiple episodes, sample letters to send your kiddos' teachers and resources you can use in your home! Want some ideas for how to talk to your kids' teachers about teaching Thanksgiving in an inclusive, Indigenous-centered way? Head to firstnamebasis.org/teachingthanksgiving for some sample letters and a free download that you can send to teachers to get the conversation going! Looking for ways to center Indigenous Peoples' in your family's Thanksgiving celebration? Head to firstnamebasis.org/thanksgiving to get some ideas sent straight to your inbox! Looking to learn more about how to celebrate Thanksgiving in a way that reflects the true history? Check out all of Thanksgiving episodes: Season 1, Episode 13: “The Untold Story of Thanksgiving” Season 1, Episode 14: “How to Teach Your Children About Thanksgiving” Season 4, Episode 13: “How to Center Indigenous Peoples During Thanksgiving”   Articles, Studies & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode Please note I am not linking Pedro's South of the Border because I do not want to drive traffic to their site. “This S.C. Roadside Attraction is Garish, Tacky and Un-PC — But I Stopped Anyway” by Maura Judkis, Washington Post  “The Pervasive Problem of ‘Linguistic Racism'”, BBC “The Reason You Discriminate Against Foreign Accents Starts With What They Do to Your Brain” by Michael Erard, Quartz “Everyone Has an Accent” by Walt Wolfram, Learning for Justice “Voices of North Carolina Dialect Awareness Curriculum”, North Carolina State University “What is Critical Language Awareness?” Annamend   Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN

On the Season 1 finale of the NC State Philanthropy Podcast, we're joined by sociolinguist and William C. Friday Distinguished Professor Walt Wolfram to hear how private support has benefited his work on campus and beyond. Wolfram has taught at NC State for three decades and is still going strong, having also produced several books and films during that time on the various dialects found all across North Carolina. He was a personal friend of Mr. Friday before the latter's passing, too, and seeks to honor his memory through the research made possible by the late UNC System president's professorship.   Transcript available here.

In this episode, which originally aired in radio format on December 23rd, 2021, I share my  conversation with the oh-so-delightful award-winning sociolinguist Walt Wolfram. A long-time professor at NCSU (where I took one of his classes some years ago), Walt was one of the early pioneers in the study of urban African American English through his work in Detroit in 1969. Since the 1960s he has authored or co-authored 20 books and more than 300 articles on variation in American English. He's also produced a ton of documentaries. This guy loves dialects, and North Carolina has more dialect diversity than any other state in the country. Language is the coolest! 

Dr. Renee Blake and Dr. Walt Wolfram discuss the history, evolution, and social implications of African American Language, as well as the current initiatives to legitimize it in academic and professional environments. 

Dr. Walt Wolfram discusses dialects found in southern states, from the Appalachian Mountains to urban Georgia, and even islands off the coast of the Chesapeake Bay. Listen to his findings and audio clips of various southern accents. 

Sy Montgomery on final farewells to beloved pets. Russell Wynn of the Marine Robotic and National Oceanographic Center in the UK shares the adventures of Boaty McBoatface. The weird wonders of bipes with Sara Ruane of Rutgers University-Newark. Ken Munro of PenTestPartners hacks smart devices to keep you safe. Walt Wolfram of North Carolina State University explores the Hoi Toiders dialect of the Outer Banks..

For our 50th episode, we're taking a break from the frequent talk of policy, economics and technology to tour the local dialects of the United States, the spoken identifiers of a city or region. Why do people in Chicago, or St. Louis, or the Outer Banks of North Carolina sound the way they do? What's in a voice? And what's happening that's changing those dialects or accents forever?  Walt Wolfram and "Talkin' Tar Heel" - Edward McClelland and "How to Speak Midwestern" - Library of Congress, The Center for Applied Linguistics Collection - Garden & Gun's Whole Hog podcast feat. Walt Wolfram - CityLab, Edward McClelland, "Why City Accents are Fading in the Midwest" - CityLab, "Techies Are Destroying Raleigh's Southern Accent" - Podcast Engineering Show, Session 91, feat. Ben Brown - Atlas Obscura, "How a Fake British Accent Took Hollywood by Storm" - Philadelphia Story scene -      

If you make judgements about someone based on what they are wearing or how their hair looks or how they talk, you have an excellent chance of being wrong. Do southern accents work against us? What about the other dialects we speak? Do people judge us based on the words we use? The answer to all those, unfortunately is yes. What can we do about that moving forward? Well we talked with professor of linguistics at North Carolina State University and world's leading fan of North Carolina accents, Dr. Walt Wolfram about how we can get beyond being judged by the dialects we use.

When you describe yourself to others you might mention your height, hairstyle, or maybe your build. But one of the most telling things about you is something you can’t even see, yet it defines you more than you realize. Your accent tells others where you’re from, who you identify with, and maybe even where you’re going. How did accents evolve and why are American accents so different from British accents? Featuring Hollywood Dialect Coach Erik Singer and Linguistics Professor Dr. Walt Wolfram.  Twenty Thousand Hertz is hosted by Dallas Taylor and produced out of the studios of Defacto Sound.  Consider supporting the show at donate.20k.org  Episode transcript, music, and credits can be found here: https://www.20k.org/episodes/accents

We catch up with Brian Reed, the producer and host of S-Town to discuss his experience in the Alabama town and the making of this epic Southern story, then we'll dissect the dialect and accents of S-Town's characters with linguistics professor Dr. Walt Wolfram, and chef Duane Nutter answers the question, "What's for supper?"

The NC Arboretum works with area farms & businesses to bring plant-based products to market. The Greensboro Children's Museum's Edible Schoolyard teaches children healthy eating habits. And author Walt Wolfram talks about his new book.

The NC Arboretum works with area farms & businesses to bring plant-based products to market. The Greensboro Children's Museum's Edible Schoolyard teaches children healthy eating habits. And author Walt Wolfram talks about his new book.

We continue our series profiling the UNC campuses with NCSU. Doctors at Duke Medical Center use new technology to treat stroke patients. And professor Walt Wolfram talks about NC's rich language & dialect heritage.

We continue our series on the UNC system with a visit to the NC School of Science & Math. UNC Charlotte kicks off its first football season. And NCSU professor Walt Wolfram receives the NC Award.

Time for another linguistic mystery. In what part of the country would you be likely to hear older folks using the following phrases? 'He sure was mommucking his little brother.'And: 'Why, those kids used to play meehonkey every afternoon!' And: 'Ohhhhhhh, I was quamished in the stomach.' Give up? The place you're likely to hear the words mommucking, meehonkey, and quamished is called Ocracoke. It's just off the North Carolina coast -- one of the Outer Banks barrier islands.Settled by the British in the early 1700s, Ocracoke's small, relatively isolated community developed its own distinctive dialect. One of the dialect's most striking features is its pronunciation. In the so-called 'Ocracoke brogue,' the expression 'high tide' sounds more like 'hoi toid.' On the island, you'll also hear some words that you won't find in many other places. Mommuck means to 'harass' or 'bother.' Quamish means 'queasy.' And old-timers on Ocracoke remember playing the island's special version of hide-and-seek. They call it meehonkey. You can hear some audio clips of Outer Banks English here, from the North Carolina State's Language and Linguistics Program.http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/english/linguistics/code/Research%20Sites/ocracoke_audio.htmAnd for a great introduction to the topic, check out Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, by linguists Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes. http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/english/linguistics/code/Research%20Sites/ocracoke/hoitoidebook.htmAnd here you'll find video of O'cokers, as they call themselves, in conversation.http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4811What regional expressions have caught your ear lately? Email us at words@waywordradio.org.  ---Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write 24 hours a day: (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673, words@waywordradio.org, or visit our web site and discussion forums at http://waywordradio.org. Copyright 2009, Wayword LLC.