Interview on “At Issue with Ben Merens” (Wisconsin Public Radio) on how our names influence who we are. (May 15, 2012)
Assigning a name to someone is a social act in our culture. So, what’s in a name? After three, join Ben Merens and his guest as they discuss how our names influence who we are. GUEST: Ben Zimmer is executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com and Vocabulary.com. He writes a biweekly language column for The Boston Globe and is the former “On Language” columnist for The New York Times Magazine.
(Show page, streaming audio, download, related Guggenheim forum)