The episode is about linguistics, from the research of Professor Frederick J Newmeyer, a world-leading scholar on linguistics, and will look at the evolutionary origin of language; ‘The Politics of Linguistics’ (1986); ‘Autonomous linguistics’; how linguistics applies to understanding across cultural and sociological divides and how linguistic forms and grammatical features affect our thinking and conceptualisation. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/dokeo. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.