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Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: April 10, 2026 Length: 37 minutes Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each month In this episode we explore African American English, its history, features, and variations, including in Hampton Roads, aka the 757.  We interview three black academics in the region to learn about AAE and what defines it.  We talk to Dr . Iyabo Osiapem , teach...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 20 Bonus: Interview with Clay Jenkinson (unfiltered) on being Thomas Jefferson Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: Dec. 15, 2025 Length: 45 minutes Publication Frequency: Monthly (approx) In this bonus episode, we talk to Clay Jenkinson, humanities scholar and longtime host of The Thomas Jefferson Hour (now Talking with America, ltamerica.org ) o...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 20: How to Talk Like a Revolutionary: Be polite! Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: Oct. 31, 2025 Length: 43 minutes Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each month Colonial Williamsburg, the restored Colonial capital (until 1780) of Virginia lies at the northwestern edge of Hampton Roads, part of a historic triangle with Yorktown an...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 19: The Myth of Standard English: 3 profs talk about how language works Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: September 6, 2025 Length: 46 minutes Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each month What exactly is linguistics? Quite simply, linguistics is the study of language, not the study of one particular language, but language as a wh...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 18: Williamsburg Poet Laureate talks character, community and spitting bars Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: July 18, 2025 Length: 36 minutes Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each month In this episode, a follow to Ep. 6 (June 2024) we catch up with Lacroy “Atlas” Nixon, a spoken word artist, slam performer and founder of the n...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 17: Third Culture Kids Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: June 13, 2025 Length: 26:10 In this episode of Languaging in Hampton Roads, co-hosts Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky talk with Molly Dye (Williamsburg/Richmond), Jody Conibear Tangredi (Virginia Beach), and Sina Whitley (Newport News) about their experiences growing up globally as Third C...

Languaging Episode 16: Notes Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 16 : How do you say Norfolk? Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: May 1, 2024 Length: 34 minutes Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday of each month In this episode we finally get to the question that our listeners have been asking since Day 1: How do you say Norfolk? Anecdotally, we discovered that everyone accepted “N...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 14 - Bonus : Coastal Birds with Marlee Fuller Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: April 13, 2025 Length: 41 Publication Frequency: Occasional (bonus) In this bonus content, we feature our interview with Marlee Fuller, a former nature guide at False Cape State Park in Virginia Beach. Not only has our guest worked at False Cape, but she has also wo...

Title:   Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 15: A Day on the Marsh Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: March 31, 2025 Length:  30 min. Publication Frequency: Monthly In this episode of languagingHR, we look out on to one of the most iconic views in the Hampton Roads area, where the marsh meets the open water, while we explore the history of common words such as marsh and mud and heron an...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 14 - Bonus : A Vietnamese Voice of Faith  Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: March 25, 2025 Length: 18:13 Publication Frequency: Occasional (bonus) In this Bonus episode, we talk to Trung Phan, a pastor at Vietnamese Hope Baptist Church in Annandale, Va. Phan is the youngest of a trio of Vietnamese brothers who lead churches affiliated with the...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 14: Voices of Faith in Hampton Roads Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: March 5, 2025 Length: 48:50 Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each month In this episode we interview several pastors, all first-generation immigrants, who minister to their flocks in the native language of their country of origin. The interviews are with Past...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 13: Guinea Talk: Gloucester County’s Unique Dialect Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: Feb 2, 2025 Length: 39:44 Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each month Take a ride with us--to Guinea Neck! Nestled in the marshland of Gloucester County, Virginia, is Guinea Neck, where the local community has made their living off the water fo...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 12 : You Can’t Play Scrabble in Urdu: Endangered Alphabets and Minority Scripts Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: Dec. 31, 2024 Length: 48:20 Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx)  of each month Co-hosts Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky invite listeners to join them at https://languagemuseum.org as they present on ‘languaging in Hampton...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 11 : From Dogwoods to Diospyros: The Origins of Plant Names in Hampton Roads  Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date : Nov. 30, 2024 Length: 36 min Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx)  of each month In this episode of Languaging Hampton Roads, we talk with three botanical experts about the origins of common and scientific names of plants an...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 10: The Ebb and Flow of Coastal Carolina Languages Hosts: Prue Salasky and Jill Winkowski Date: Oct. 31, 2024 Length: 34.15 min Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx) of each monthCo-hosts Prue Salasky and Jill Winkowski delve into the history and language of Hatteras and Ocracoke Islands, part of the Outer Banks, OBX, of North Carolina, our neighb...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 9 : What It Takes to Raise Bilingual Children Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date : Oct. 2, 2024 Length: 38.08 min Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx)  of each month   Co-hosts Jill Winkowski and Prue Salaskyexplore the topic of how best to raise bilingual children. It’s an endlessly complex topic with multiple angles. First, they share...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 8 : Road Trip in Hampton Roads: Uncovering the Origins of Geographical Names Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date : Sept. 5, 2024 Length: 31:45 min Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday (approx)  of each month Co-hosts Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky take a road trip to the far corners of Hampton Roads in S.E. Va. They’re in search of the provenance...

Languaging Episode #7 Notes: July doldrums https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/languaginghr Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 7 : July doldrums Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: August 9, 2024 Length: 18:40 Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday of each month In this off-the-cuff mini-episode, hosts Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky give listeners information on the name and wh...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 6: Creative Community: Spoken Word in Hampton Roads Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: June 30, 2024 Length: 35:59 minutes In this sixth episode of our podcast, languagingHR, we explore the world of spoken word poetry in Hampton Roads. To understand when spoken word poetry is and its nuances, we interviewed three local poets, Tanya Cunningham, G...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/languaginghr Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 5: The Sound of Virginia: Awakening the Powhatan language Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: May 28, 2024 Length: 28 minutes Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday of each month Worldwide, languages are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. While some are working to record endangered languages,...

Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 4 : ‘How’re you doing?’: Diagnosing Health Talk Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: April 26, 2024 Length: 24:22 Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday of each month Conversations between medical providers and patients have their own special style and context-driven meaning. In this episode, co-hosts Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky explore the ways...

Languaging Episode 3: Notes Title: Languaging in Hampton Roads Episode 3: What's in a Name? Hosts: Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky Date: March 22, 2024 Length: 21:19 minutes Publication Frequency: Fourth Friday of each month In this third episode of Languaging in Hampton Roads, co-hosts Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky explore how words get added to the English language and their discussion foc...

In this episode of Languaging in Hampton Roads, co-hosts Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky look into communication in the deaf community. They explore sign language, its history and variations. In particular they focus on the development of BASL, Black American Sign Language and American Sign Language in the southern U.S.  Through an interview with a nationally certified interpreter for the deaf, hi...

In this first episode of Languaging Hampton Roads, co-hosts Jill Winkowski, a Tidewater native, and Prue Salasky, a UK native, introduce themselves, describe their background in linguistic studies, and explain their interest in the region’s life and language.  Note: For the most part they use the terms Hampton Roads (a political designation) and Tidewater (a geographical designation) interchangeab...