Welcome to Paul Meier’s free, monthly In a Manner of Speaking podcast, which he began in February 2018. Each podcast, usually with a distinguished guest, tackles a different topic related to the spoken word. Topics include idiolects, news reading, pragmatics, code-switching, Original Pronunciation, phonetics, dialect clichés and stereotypes, secret languages, and dialects of indigenous peoples. … Continue reading ‘In a Manner of Speaking’ Podcast