In place of Lingua Franca on Saturday, 19 May, RN will be broadcasting from the Sydney Writers Festival. For the Wednesday night broadcast of Lingua Franca, 23 May, Robert Dessaix reads his autobiographical piece Incommunicado, telling about the privately-conceived language that he calls K.

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Lingua Franca, presented by Maria Zijlstra, looks at all aspects of language: language old, modern, and even invented. Through interviews and prepared talks, the program features experts who analyse a single topic of interest to users and lovers of language. Examples of the sort of linguistic territory they traverse are: bi-lingual education, ebonics, the language of pornography, and the political use of words. Lingua Franca is published every Saturday.
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Folge vom 19.05.2012Incommunicado
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Folge vom 12.05.2012Cuneiform in MelbourneSince the mid-19th century archeological excavations in Mesopotamia—the land that lies between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates in what is now Iraq—and the decipherment of cuneiform, it has become apparent that many aspects of Western culture are based on the achievements and knowledge gained there, in ancient times.
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Folge vom 05.05.2012Japanese on the move‘Japanese on the Move: Life Stories of Transmigration’ is an online project set up jointly by the longtime collaborators Dr Kimie Takahashi and Professor Ingrid Piller, telling about the Japanese-ness of a range of participants living in Australia, hosted on the sociolinguistics research website called ‘Language on the Move'.
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Folge vom 28.04.2012Tangsa song languageA traditional song language, used by Tangsa people in the far north-east of India as well as across the border in Burma, is different and distinct from spoken Tangsa language forms.