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Recession speak: Amanda Laugesen on the language of financial crises

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The ABR Podcast 26 August 2020

Recession speak: Amanda Laugesen on the language of financial crises

by
The ABR Podcast 26 August 2020

Language has always been shaped by the times. In today's episode, Amanda Laugesen, Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre, reveals how the national vocabulary has been transformed by recession, depression, financial crises, and periods of high unemployment. A list to which we sombrely might add the current pandemic. 


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Music credit: 'Moonrise' and 'Negentropy' by Chad Crouch is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

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