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A monthly podcast in which Jill Winkowski and Prue Salasky explore life and language in Hampton Roads, Virginia.

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June 11, 2025 47 mins

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 ...

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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...

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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...

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March 31, 2025 30 mins

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...

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March 24, 2025 18 mins

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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August 9, 2024 18 mins

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...

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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 ...

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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...

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March 22, 2024 21 mins

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...

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February 24, 2024 26 mins

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...

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January 20, 2024 22 mins

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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