LingKUistics: Recent Episodes
English Linguistics at Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
LingKUistics is a podcast on English linguistics brought to you by students from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU). It is meant to break down interesting topics from the scientific field of English linguistics and make them accessible for anyone. Enjoy new expert interviews and episodes about forensic linguistics, framing, Artificial Intelligence in language learning, and more every Tuesday!
Is English truly as easy as many people think? Join us for this week's episode where we discuss the question whether English is actually an easy or a difficult language to learn from a linguistic perspective. We will also be interviewing Prof. Heiner Böttger, head of English didactics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, who will share his knowledge on the topic with us and give some useful language learning advice to our listeners.
In this episode, we will give you an insightful look at the linguistic phenomenon of framing. How do you frame your day-to-day life right? How can you profit from positive self-talk? Why should you pay attention on how others phrase their words? Those and other questions will be answered by us and our interview guest Prof. Dr. Hoffmann.
Anything you write can be used against you - to the point where a few written paragraphs can reveal your identity! This is possible through authorship analysis, also known as forensic linguistics.
Are you an avid true crime fan? Then this is just the episode for you since we will discuss one of the most famous criminal cases in FBI history, which happens to involve the use of authorship analysis. What methods are used by forensic linguists?
For some hands-on insight on the real work of a forensic linguist, we will talk to Dr. Sabine Ehrhardt, who works at the Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany.