Pandemic Language

Pandemic Language

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 1509 , Segment 3

COVID-19 Update, Pandemic Language, SCOTUS Sketches

Episode: COVID-19 Update, Pandemic Language, SCOTUS Sketches

  • Jan 12, 2021 9:00 pm
  • 14:29 mins

Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic introduced new words into our vocabulary–like "social distancing"–it also might be changing the way we speak. Michigan State University researchers are studying this through a project called “MI Diaries,” and sociolinguistics professor Betsy Sneller (pictured) is heading that project.