“And that’s what ideologies are: the air that you’re breathing, something that feels like it’s common sense.” From start to finish, this episode is about ideologies: their consequences, their makeup, and the struggle to shake their influence. Savithry Namboodiripad, an associate professor of Linguistics at UMichigan leverages her linguistics background to critique ideologies of the native speaker, monolingualism, multilingualism, and more. Her research often proceeds on two separate tracks: studying language (often syntax or language contact), and studying the field of linguistics: where our received theoretical framings come from, and how to reach stronger conclusions based on multi-disciplinary evidence. In this episode, we discuss how to dismantle pernicious ideologies through better experimental design and theoretical framing, and then we get to questions that are far greater than just the field of linguistics. For instance, why must we always get to the “pure” natural object? How have ideas about language always transcended academic discourse? Throughout, we express a lot of frustration for the academic frameworks that neglect to unsettle eugenicist, misogynistic, or racist ideologies. But it’s important to remember that linguistics is not alone in its failure. Science needs variables, and society provides them. Frameworks make things make sense, so they stay. Linguistics is caught in limbo between formal failures and the impositions of our content: language. <a href="https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/namboodiripad/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Savithry Namboodiripad</a> <a href="https://www.rolecollective.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The ROLE Collective</a> <a href="https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/ccc-lab/home?authuser=0" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Contact, Cognition, & Change Lab</a> <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/937197" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Rejecting nativeness to produce a more accurate and just Linguistics</a> <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/56269/chapter/445195497" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Towards a Decolonial Syntax: Research, Teaching, Publishing | Decolonizing Linguistics </a><a href="https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2021-0098/html?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Why we need a gradient approach to word order</a>

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