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A monthly podcast in which Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky explore life and language in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Episodes
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 nonprofit Slam Connection. He’s the ne...
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 Culture Kids.
The term third culture kid ...
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 “NAHfuk” as the old-time pronunciati...
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 worked on bird research on the Gulf Coast a...
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 and horizon that are used every day to descri...
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 Southern Baptist Convention in northern V...
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 Pastor Echo Lin from the Shanghai region of ma...
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 for centuries. Traditionally, the lif...
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 Roads’ to The National Museum of La...
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 and fungi that grow in the Hampton Road...
Title: Languaging in Hampton RoadsEpisode 10: The Ebb and Flow of Coastal Carolina LanguagesHosts: Prue Salasky and Jill WinkowskiDate: Oct. 31, 2024Length: 34.15 minPublication 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 neighbors to the south and part of our geograp...
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 some of the changes in research that show t...
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 of the names, Elephant’s Fork in Su...
Languaging Episode #7 Notes: July doldrums
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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 whereabouts of Hampton Roads, Virgini...
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, George Mendez, and Lacroy Nixon...
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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, here in Hampton Roads the Powhatan ...
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 providers in Hampton Roads implem...
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 focuses primarily on the add...
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, his interview of a deaf woman in Virg...
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) interchangeably to denote this corner of Southea...
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