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Podcast: Office Hours with David Meltzer
Episode: Valerie Fridland, Derek Flanzraich, Art Gilliland
Description: [0:00] Valerie FridlandValerie is a linguistics professor in the English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She writes a popular language blog on Psychology Today called "Language in the Wild," and is also a professor for The Great Courses series. An expert on the relationship between language and society, her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and she is co-author of the book Sociophonetics.[16:15] Derek FlanzraichDerek is an entrepreneur who founded Greatist, the first consumer-facing health brand for this generation, with a mission to make healthy living cool. With experience...