Language

The Honourable Dame Tariana Turia, former Cabinet Minister and founder of the Maori Party, and Dr Gareth Morgan, economist and founder of the Opportunities Party, present the 2017 Waitangi Rua Rautau… Audio

Politics and the corporate world have long been guilty of egregious crimes against language, but this obfuscatory jargon is now creeping into everyday speech.     Audio

For new migrants just getting a job is hard enough. But once they do, they also need to quickly get a grip on our metaphors, euphamisms, sayings and workplace culture.

Lynn Freeman visited Victoria… Audio, Gallery

Megan Whelan looks at how language shapes – and is shaped by – our understanding of the world, with Dr Sasha Calhoun, Professor Paul Warren and Associate Professor Stephen Epstein. Audio

What are bats saying to each other? What does it all mean? Zoologist at Tel Aviv University and the head of the school's Bat Lab for Neuro-Ecology Yossi Yovel, is trying to figure out what they're… Audio

Painter, poet, curator and writer on the year in poetry - introducing several favourites, including Paekakariki poet Rob Hack. Audio

The way we use English is not what it used to be. Audio

Do talkative older siblings impact a younger child's language development? Do dummies cause speech delays? Speech and language therapist, Christian Wright, busts some myths. Audio

If you've picked up an Oxford English Dictionary in the last 37 years, the chances are one of the definitions you read was written by John Simpson. Audio

Courtrooms are intimidating places for anybody but what if you were on trial and had no idea what was going on. International research started here in New Zealand shows 60% of youth offenders have… Audio

Victoria University researchers, Emma Wollum has been investigating our use of profanity, how it is changed, and what is says about us. Audio

Luci Tapahonso is a professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson and the first poet laureate of the Navajo nation. The native speaker of Navajo is in New Zealand as part of Victoria… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Wellington writer Kate De Goldi, whose most recent novel, From the Cutting Room of Barney Kettle won the junior fiction category at the 2016 Book Awards for Children and Young… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Auckland singer and songwriter Anna Coddington, who has been nominated for the APRA Silver Scroll four times since 2010, and is a regular collaborator on the Fly My Pretties… Audio

Kim Hill talks to Nicky Dunne, manager of Heywood Hill, an independent bookstore in London that is marking its 80th anniversary with the world's first lifetime literary prize. The Library of a… Audio

They are two peas in a pod, this is a recipe for disaster! Every six minutes, we use a metaphor. We use them without knowing it, and they are a key to how we think says James Geary. Audio