Episode 5 (Pragmatics, with David Crystal)

Paul's guest for June 2018 is David Crystal, one of the world's most famous linguists and the leader of the modern movement we call OP: Original Pronunciation of Shakespeare’s works. David explains the fascinating linguistic subfield of Pragmatics, which he defines as the "study of the choices that you make when you use language, the reasons for those choices, and the effects that the choices convey."