Connie Eble discusses her book, Slang and Sociability: In-Group Language College Students, an account of how college students talk and how their language reflects identity and social authority.
In the episode’s second interview [15:10], Robert Fradkin talks about his book, The Well-Tempered Announcer: A Pronunciation Guide to Classical Music, which according to Fradkin might be subtitled, How to Take the Foreignness out of Foreign Languages.