[Linganth] new podcast episode! "Is Talk Cheap? Language, Tourism, and Landscape: A Conversation with Thea Strand"

[Graber, Kathryn E.]

Happy New Year, anthropologists,

Rural speech is often denigrated, but how might it also be valuable? In this third and final installment of our "Is Talk Cheap?" series on language and value, Ariana Gunderson and I interview Dr. Thea Strand about a highly valorized dialect of rural Norway that won a national popularity contest and is increasingly being used commercially. We talk about how the Valdres dialect is now used commercially for tourists in diverse places, from wayfinding signs on ski trails to advertising car washes at gas stations. Learn the significance of a single vowel in advertising a festival for fermented fish!

"Is Talk Cheap? Language, Tourism, and Landscape: A Conversation with Thea Strand"<https://econanthro.org/podcasts/is-talk-cheap-language-tourism-and-landscape-a-conversation-with-thea-strand/>

Mergers and Acquisitions is a podcast of the Society for Economic Anthropology, produced in collaboration with the American Anthropological Association. We feature quarterly thematic collections on topics that range from climate change and digital capitalism to entrepreneurship, waste, and energy.

In the Is Talk Cheap? <https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/> series<https://econanthro.org/category/podcasts/is-talk-cheap/>, PhD student Ariana Gunderson and I are bringing economic anthropology and linguistic anthropology together to explore language and value. We are hosting interviews with anthropologists thinking critically about qualia, evaluation, authenticity, and circulation, tracing the ways that value is semiotically negotiated and constructed.

All of the episodes in this series:
November 1: Is Talk Cheap? Language and Value: A Conversation with Jillian Cavanaugh
December 1: Is Talk Cheap? Making Palm Oil "Sustainable": A Conversation with Montserrat Perez Castro
January 1: Is Talk Cheap? Language, Tourism, and Landscape with Thea Strand

Happy listening,
Kate

Kathryn E. Graber
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology<https://anthropology.indiana.edu/about/faculty/graber-kathryn.html> and Department of Central Eurasian Studies<https://ceus.indiana.edu/people/current-faculty/graber-kathryn.html>
Co-Director, Qualitative Data Analysis Lab<https://ssrc.indiana.edu/facilities/quallab/index.html>
Indiana University
Member at Large, Society for Linguistic Anthropology (2023-2026)
publications: Mixed Messages<https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501750519/mixed-messages/> | Storytelling as Narrative Practice<https://brill.com/display/title/38668?language=en> | downloadable things<https://indiana.academia.edu/KathrynGraber>
I wish to acknowledge and honor the myaamiaki, Lënape, Bodwéwadmik, and saawanwa people, on whose ancestral homelands and resources Indiana University Bloomington is built.

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