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| Episode 59 - York English Language Toolkit 2024 | 06 Jul 2024 | 00:41:31 | |
Show notes for Episode 59 Here are the show notes for Episode 59, in which Dan talks to Sam Hellmuth, Professor of Linguistics at the University of York about the 2024 York English Language Toolkit workshop. We also talk to Eytan Zweig and James Tompkinson about their sessions. You can sign up here: https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops Previous workshops and case studies are here: https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Raj Rana Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 58 - Vaclav Brezina and the new Frequency Dictionary of British English | 26 Jun 2024 | 00:30:02 | |
Show notes for Episode 58 Here are the show notes for Episode 58, in which Dan talks to Professor of Corpus Linguistics, Dr Vaclav Brezina of Lancaster University about:
Vaclav’s University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/vaclav-brezina Some coverage of the research and the publication: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/03/english-language-use-more-informal-words-linguistics/
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| Episode 49 - Ife Thompson and Black British English | 07 Feb 2024 | 00:53:42 | |
Show notes for Episode 49 Here are the show notes for Episode 49, in which Jacky and Dan talk to lawyer, community activist and author, Ife Thompson, about:
BLAM (UK): https://blamuk.org/ “When Black students’ language is suppressed or outrightly banned in classrooms they begin to absorb messages that imply Black language is incorrect and unintelligent, this can cause them to internalise anti-Blackness. Students who internalise negative ideas about their language and culture may develop a sense of inferiority and lose confidence in their own abilities, and school in general. “The linguistic stigma of BBE also encourages the inappropriate and racially discriminatory discipline of Black children. In 2021, this was evidenced when a South London school with a large proportion of Black students introduced a language ban that included BBE vocabulary and semantics. Children could be reprimanded and punished for speaking in a way most natural and culturally significant to them, fuelling the practice and policies of UK schools criminalising Blackness.” “The misidentification of Black British English as MLE minimises the cultural value and influence of Black heritage in modern-day Britain.” Ife in conversation with Johanna Gerwin: ttps://londontalksresearch.co.uk/2023/01/20/black-british-english-as-a-label-for-multicultural-london-english/ Our interview with Johanna about London English: https://open.spotify.com/episode/42lkwg3h0k9PjWtJFkJDbU?si=tHWJWE6XTLK1K3bOMLTzCQ Art Not Evidence campaign: https://artnotevidence.org/ Garden Court Chambers on the Art Not Evidence campaign: https://www.gardencourtchambers.co.uk/news/art-not-evidence-launches-campaign-to-stop-rap-lyrics-being-used-as-evidence “One day we will ask ourselves how on earth the state was ever allowed to get away with using rap music as evidence to prosecute Black defendants in serious crime cases. Making music isn’t evidence of crime but the prosecuting of it is. As a result, the state creates unsafe convictions, perpetuates racist stereotypes and restricts artistic expression. This has got to stop. Join Art Not Evidence to help liberate rap from the legal system.” The Manchester 10 case: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/01/fury-in-manchester-as-black-teenagers-jailed-as-result-of-telegram-chat The first episode of Black British English podcast: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-black-british/can-uk-slang-be-a-language-wEfv74rgexA/ Ife on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fufuisonme/status/1741037657084276882/photo/2 Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 48 - Frazer Heritage on representation of gender in videogames (and more) | 24 Jan 2024 | 00:49:28 | |
Show notes for Episode 48 Here are the show notes for Episode 48, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Frazer Heritage of Manchester Metropolitan University about:
Frazer’s staff profile at MMU: Dr Frazer Heritage | Manchester Metropolitan University Some of Frazer’s work for Manchester Game Centre: Language, Equality, and Gaming – LEG project Frazer’s website: Frazer Heritage Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 47 - Fiona McPherson of the OED and Words of the Year 2023 | 16 Dec 2023 | 00:28:06 | |
Show notes for Episode 47 Here are the show notes for Episode 47, in which Dan talks to Fiona McPherson of the Oxford English Dictionary about:
Some of the best articles and updates about #WOTY2023 can be found here: AI named word of the year by Collins Dictionary - BBC News Rizz named word of the year 2023 by Oxford University Press - BBC News Dictionary.com’s 2023 Word Of The Year Is… The Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year 2023 The Collins Word of the Year 2023 is… Word of the Year 2023 | Authentic | Merriam-Webster » Nominate the 2023 Words of the Year American Dialect Society Japan chooses ‘tax’ as kanji of the year amid concern over cost of living Opinion pieces about new words The Collins word of the year shortlist shows we’re more self-obsessed than ever Hallucinating AIs and What The Words Of The Year Lists Reveal About our Modern World Rizz: I study the history of charisma – here's why the word of the year is misunderstood Thread on Twitter responding to the ‘manosphere’ links Who's got 'the rizz'? Apparently, just men I get the need for ‘rizz’, but ‘influencer’ should be banned for ever Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 46 - Paul Kerswill & MLE | 26 Nov 2023 | 00:41:55 | |
Show notes for Episode 46 Here are the show notes for Episode 46, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to Paul Kerswill, Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York about what has driven his interests in linguistics, but mostly about Multicultural London English:
Paul’s University of York page: https://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/paul-kerswill/ Some of the presentations and papers Paul Kerswill has produced on MLE: https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/who-made-mle https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/jafaican and the full paper of this workshop is here: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/93713/1/17_Kerswill_corr.pdf Some links to early reporting on MLE, MEYD and more: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/search?q=MEYD Some of Tony Thorne’s reflections on MLE (he denies coining the term ‘MEYD’ though!): https://language-and-innovation.com/?s=MLE We talked about Accent Bias Britain too: https://accentbiasbritain.org/ Here’s a York English Language Toolkit session on this too: https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/accent-bias-britain And previous episodes of Lexis in which we’ve discussed MLE: Shivonne Gates: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5leNPWkgQTMFzZ2UHRktnC?si=wh-4nKMmTpm7Q5on2x2wIQ Matt Hunt Gardner: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7GBFEsLSNKYEpvX2yHIanO?si=_h-_-ROcRpm1llQLiLoSJw And we talk about recent reporting on MLE in this episode’s Lang in the News: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0cdODEHoWHIWLfd0gh6xSw?si=pwjAKwHbRyea0jxUBugbiA Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys
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| Episode 45 - Alex Baratta and accentism | 11 Nov 2023 | 00:42:40 | |
Show notes for Episode 45 Here are the show notes for Episode 45, in which we talk to Dr Alex Baratta, Senior Lecturer in Language, Linguistics & Communication, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester about:
In our regular Lang in the News segment we talk about how formal greetings and sign-offs might be becoming a thing of the past and why that’s the fault of… well, pretty much everyone that Daily Mail readers don’t like. We also have a quick chat about the European-wide attempts to make language more inclusive, the first round of WOTY2023 and we big up Rob Drummond’s book, You’re All Talk. Alex Baratta’s University of Manchester page: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/alex.baratta Some of the articles, books and research we mentioned: https://theconversation.com/teachers-with-northern-accents-are-being-told-to-posh-up-heres-why-88425 https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/clarifying-accent-standards-for-british-teachers Yours Sincerely is dead… The Guardian: And in the Mail: Attempts to promote inclusive language in European languages What’s in a word? How less-gendered language is faring across Europe #WOTY2023 AI named word of the year by Collins Dictionary - BBC News Opinion piece about new words https://archive.ph/kv2UQ Rob Drummond’s new book: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/you-re-all-talk-why-we-are-what-we-speak-rob-drummond/7512151?aid=4868&ean=9781914484285 Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 44 - Kingsley Ugwuanyi + Amanda Cole | 06 Nov 2023 | 01:08:27 | |
Show notes for Episode 44 Here are the show notes for Episode 44, in which we talk to Dr Kingsley Ugwuanyi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Horizon Europe’s RISE UP Research Project, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at SOAS about:
In a Lang in the News bumper segment we talk about recent research into young people’s accents in the south east of England and media reactions to it, including a chat with Dr Amanda Cole of University of Essex about her paper and how it’s been covered. Kingsley Ugwuanyi’s SOAS page: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/kingsley-o-ugwuanyi The paper (with Folajimi Oyebola) that we discussed: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Attitudes-of-Nigerian-expatriates-towards-accents-Ugwuanyi-Oyebola/ed2c0e7ac631c4a10fad45021abc8028c1305efc The BBC article we talked about: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-66569668 Kingsley’s PhD: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344951319_English_language_ownership_perceptions_of_speakers_of_Nigerian_English Amanda Cole's recent accent research The Mail covers it… And its readers comment: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12691143/Kings-speech-cockney-silenced-rise-new-accents-popularised-Ellie-Goulding-Adele-Stormzy.html Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/30/kings-english-cockney-replaced-new-accents/ BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-67289519 The Guardian Pass Notes: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/31/language-barrier-why-even-harry-has-stopped-speaking-the-kings-english The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/05/cockneys-out-all-speaking-multicultural-now-accents Accent intelligibility Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) BlueSky: @englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 43 - language & gender special part 2 | 27 Jul 2023 | 00:40:34 | |
Show notes for Episode 43 Here are the show notes for Episode 43, the second part of a Language & Gender double episode special, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan discuss ways to teach Language and Gender at A Level, from the 3 / 4 Ds models, to slightly tweaked and reverse Ds, through to corpus methods, treating gender as part of a wider ‘identity’ approach and much more. Some of the resources and links that we mention in this episode Cameron et al. on tag qns: https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/CameronTags.pdf Clare Feeney’s Twitter thread with a suggested approach: https://twitter.com/ClareFeeneyUK/status/1672172689224605697?s=20 Corpus for Schools | Corpus resources for A-level English Language and English Language Teaching Alessia Tranchese’s paper on sexualised violence against women: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publications/covering-rape-how-the-media-determine-how-we-understand-sexualise Alessia Tranchese’s paper on the language of incels on Reddit: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/projects/online-misogyny-new-media-old-attitudes Previous Lexis episodes that we mention in this episode. Episode 10: Lucy Jones gender, sexuality and identity special https://open.spotify.com/episode/1m9UKNUUysD6Vawj61C2kW?si=U8fBAYFyRHSonV9NQ85qag Episode 14: Emma Moore https://open.spotify.com/episode/1j6MyddIEivQ8x2e2cObhR?si=uLwnyY10QDy_92UEpk4EhA Episode 15: Dana Gablasova https://open.spotify.com/episode/7nagsHhogFSfJmexecKlXt?si=U5ehaxmxQWSN57J5dAtjkQ Episode 19: Elena Semino https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ISaApHlLITDd7l9npXKKj?si=Wlei19KwTTyTeWfbK15qvg Suggested reading: Deborah Cameron’s blog, Language: a feminist guide: https://debuk.wordpress.com/ Deborah Cameron’s Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Cameron_(linguist) Deborah Cameron wrote this Research Update for Teachers for the EMC back in 2015: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/language-gender-a-research-update-for-teachers Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) BlueSky: @danc.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 42 - Deborah Cameron, language & gender special part 1 | 16 Jul 2023 | 00:56:48 | |
Here are the show notes for Episode 42, the first part of a Language & Gender double episode special, in which we talk to Deborah Cameron, Professor in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford about:
We’ll be back soon with a follow-up episode in which we look at how we can approach the teaching of language and gender in a world that’s changed since the earliest days of research into this field. Deborah Cameron’s blog, Language: a feminist guide: https://debuk.wordpress.com/ Deborah Cameron’s Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Cameron_(linguist) Robin Lakoff’s 1973 article for Language in Society can be found here: https://web.stanford.edu/class/linguist156/Lakoff_1973.pdf Some articles about Deborah Cameron’s Myth of Mars and venus from around the time it was published: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/01/gender.books https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/oct/03/gender.politicsphilosophyandsociety1 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/02/gender.familyandrelationships https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/language-common Deborah wrote this Research Update for Teachers for the EMC back in 2015: https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/language-gender-a-research-update-for-teachers Carmen Fought and Karen Eisenhauer, ‘The Princess Problem’: https://www.kareneisenhauer.org/projects-and-publications/ A Q&A with Karen Eisenhauer about her work: https://english.news.chass.ncsu.edu/2017/04/20/language-gender-and-disney-princesses/ The Washington Post on the Disney Princess research: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/25/researchers-have-discovered-a-major-problem-with-the-little-mermaid-and-other-disney-movies/ Alessia Tranchese’s paper on sexualised violence against women: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/publications/covering-rape-how-the-media-determine-how-we-understand-sexualise Alessia Tranchese’s paper on the language of incels on Reddit: https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/projects/online-misogyny-new-media-old-attitudes Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) BlueSky: @danc.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 41 - Johanna Gerwin and London English | 26 Jun 2023 | 00:45:59 | |
Show notes for Episode 41 Here are the show notes for Episode 41, in which Dan talks to Dr Johanna Gerwin, a sociolinguist at QMUL and DFG (German Research Foundation) post-doctoral researcher for the London Talks project about London English, including:
Johanna’s QMUL staff page: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguistics/people/research-staff/profiles/johanna-gerwin.html Johanna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jo_gerw The London Talks project website: https://londontalksresearch.co.uk/ Real Talk on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealTalkEast In our regular Lang in the News segment, Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk about ‘cis’ and how it’s been termed a slur by Elon Musk. We discuss where ‘cis’ comes from and all the related issues about language policing in a changing world.
Elon Musk claims ‘cis’ is a slur… Elon Musk sparks outrage with threat to ban ‘cisgender’ as a ‘slur’ on Twitter | The Independent Elon Musk claims use of 'cis' and 'cisgender' on Twitter is 'harassment', threatens to suspend users Researcher who coined term 'cisgender' hits back at Elon Musk Cisgender refers to people whose gender identity aligns with the one assigned at birth. The researcher who coined the term, Dana Defosse, first used the word in a 1994 post on an early internet forum, which Oxford English Dictionary cited when it added the term to the dictionary in 2015 No, Elon Musk, cis is not a slur | The Independent OED update December 2015: New words notes December 2015 | Oxford English Dictionary “Another sign of our increasingly complex understanding of personal identity in the twenty-first century is the inclusion of a cluster of words beginning with the prefix cis–: cis, cisgender, cisgendered, and cissexual. Derived from the Latin preposition cis, meaning ‘on this side of’, until relatively recently this prefix was chiefly visible in English in the adjectives cisalpine and cismontane (‘on this side of the Alps/mountains’), and in the names of certain chemicals displaying a particular type of molecular symmetry. Since 1994 however, when the word cisgendered was used by an American academic appealing for help with a study of transgender issues, cis– has taken on a new lease of life in a group of words which provide a direct equivalent to identity terms such as transgender and transsexual when referring to people who are not trans, i.e., those whose sense of their own personal identity corresponds to their birth sex.” What does 'cisgender' mean? | Merriam-Webster Etymology of ‘cis’: The Word “Cisgender” Has Scientific Roots | Office for Science and Society - McGill University And Jill is no longer part of the Lexis team - thanks to her for being involved and for all her contribution and insights! Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) BlueSky: @danc.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 40 - York English Language Toolkit | 07 Jun 2023 | 00:56:35 | |
Show notes for Episode 40 Here are the show notes for Episode 40, a bumper edition in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to four linguists from the University of York about their York English Language Toolkit website and teacher CPD sessions. We talk to:
The York English Language Toolkit website can be found here: https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies This year’s sessions can be found here: https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/workshops York English Language Toolkit on Twitter: https://twitter.com/YorkToolkit Sam Hellmuth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/samhellmuth Claire Childs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/childs_claire George Bailey on Twitter: https://twitter.com/grbails University of York Department of Language and Linguistic Science: https://twitter.com/UoYLangLing Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) BlueSky: @danc.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Jill Lavender Twitter: https://twitter.com/JillLavs Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 57 - Lang in the News and Johanna Gerwin on MLE | 23 May 2024 | 00:57:08 | |
Show notes for Episode 57 Here are the show notes for Episode 57, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk about some recent Lang in the News, including:
And then straight after that, Raj and Dan talk to the actual Dr Johanna Gerwin about her paper and about the ways the media discourses around MLE have developed since it was dubbed ‘Jafaikan’ back in the day… The apostrophe stories https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-39459831 Johanna Gerwin’s paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530924000314 Rebecca Mead’s New Yorker article on MLE: http://archive.today/AdcqJ The Ed West Telegraph article: http://www.eckington.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/Jafaican-may-be-cool-but-it-sounds-ridiculous.pdf Lots of articles about MLE gathered in one place: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/discourses-around-mle-and-youth-language.html Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Raj Rana Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 39: Dan Collen on weaponized laughter memes & Heddwen Newton on Lang in the News | 28 May 2023 | 01:07:19 | |
Show notes for Episode 39 Here are the show notes for Episode 39, in which Lisa and Dan talk to Dan Collen, an online hate researcher from Canada about his work on the Weaponized Laughter: Memes and Hate in the Canadian Digital Landscape report he has helped produce. We talk about:
🚩As might be obvious when looking at hate speech, this episode comes with a content warning for themes of racism and discrimination.🚩 And for a Lang in the News special, we talk to Heddwen Newton about her newsletter English in Progress, some recent news stories that have caught her eye and how to stay on top of news stories about language. Dan Collen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpinelessL The Weaponized Laughter Memes report: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/rdq6owff/production/6b78f8630669069025ea145da2221ef2c1fac032.pdf Hatepedia site: Hatepedia
“Hatepedia is an online database and resource centre built with original research to provide educators, parents, lawmakers, and researchers with tools to identify and counter the proliferation of online hate.” Heddwen’s Language in Progress newsletter: https://englishinprogress.substack.com/ Heddwen’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/Heddwen Susie Dent’s ‘banished words list’: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65634829 And the Tweet that started it: https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1658380887698931712?s=20 Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Mastodon: Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Jill Lavender Twitter: https://twitter.com/JillLavs Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 38 - Anna Islentyeva and the representation of masculinity in advertising | 23 Apr 2023 | 00:48:29 | |
Here are the show notes for Episode 38, in which Lisa and Dan talk to Dr Anna Islentyeva of Innsbruck University, Austria about the representation of masculinity in advertising, including:
Anna’s university page: https://www.uibk.ac.at/anglistik/staff/islentyeva/islentyeva.html Anna on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hei_anni The “Real Men Score” paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HZsad35JBMD0kM4FqpXpWn8xWnIzAiL-/view?usp=share_link Anna Islentyeva, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Nadia Schützinger & Andrea Platzer (2023) ‘Real Men Score’: Masculinity in Contemporary Advertising Discourse, Critical Discourse Studies, DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2023.2173625 The study that Anna mentioned into perfume advertising was by Helen Ringrow and this is her book The Language of Cosmetics: The Language of Cosmetics Advertising | SpringerLink And in our regular Lang in the News segment, Jacky and Dan talk about linguistic accommodation, the power of accents and why politicians love to talk down to us. Northern lessons for southern Tories https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1649520363926110210?t=pCM6q2gelPqBiOFGy4bQcA&s=19 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/04/21/how-do-you-sex-a-limpet-susie/ Rishi Sunak’s downwards convergence Here’s the clip: https://twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1640280827086143488 Is it “hilariously inauthentic”(Alex Andreou)? Is it “sheer desperation by an out of touch rich boy trying to show he is in tune with the public” (Dave Lawrence in replies to tweet above https://twitter.com/dave43law/status/1640326877842685954?s=20 )? Or is it just another example of politicians (of all parties) trying to sound more human and a perfectly natural way of doing language? Jane Setter article about people keeping/losing accents: George Osborne: 'Mockney' George Osborne backs working Briddish with dodgy accent George 'Mockney' Osborne: Chancellor in Estuary accent shocker George Osborne, gawd bless yer | Victoria Coren | The Guardian Academics 'dropping regional accents' to fit in at elite universities (linked story to accommodation)
Ed Miliband with Russell Brand: Accent on common ground as Miliband takes on Russell Brand's estuary twang The cultural significance of Ed Miliband's mockney accent | The Spectator Has Ed Miliband changed his accent to get elected?
Tony Blair: London Journal; Britons Prick Up Their Ears: Blair's a Li'l Peculiar I don’t have a posh accent – am I bothered? | Suzanne Moore | The Guardian Accents in Higher Education: Academics 'dropping regional accents' to fit in at elite universities British academics try to hide regional accents, study finds
Alex Barratta’s work on accents and teaching Research exposes prejudice over teachers with northern accents
Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Mastodon: Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Jill Lavender Twitter: https://twitter.com/JillLavs Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 37 - Heidi Colthup and the language of gaming | 25 Mar 2023 | 00:52:59 | |
Show notes for Episode 37 Here are the show notes for Episode 37, in which Dan and Jill talk to Dr Heidi Colthup of the University of Kent about the language of gaming, including:
Heidi’s university page: https://www.kent.ac.uk/cultures-languages/people/1705/colthup-heidi Heidi on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Heidi_Colthup Some of Heidi’s recommended reading: Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman, Rules of Play: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262240451/rules-of-play/ Marie-Laure Ryan, Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media: https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Narrative_as_Virtual_Reality.html?id=cjAWAQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y And in our regular Lang in the News segment, Lisa and Dan talk about Oxfam’s guide to “inclusive language” and why it has upset some people. Pronouns and inclusive language Oxfam and gender neutral language: Words matter: that’s why Oxfam is launching an inclusive language guide - Views & Voices “These principles and language guidelines are designed to prompt thought when using language. They are not set rules and should not be viewed as restrictions. They are intended to complement existing messaging frameworks and positionings. We recognize that language is context- and audience-specific, and shifts between time and place; we would encourage you to think about what works best for your purpose.” New Statesman The furore over Oxfam’s “woke” language guide misses the point - New Statesman Is it a choice between “Blustering bigotry or preening sanctimony”? “Language is neither progressive nor regressive. It does not move along a line of continuous, consensus-led improvement, nor will it wholly degrade into meaningless relativism. What it does do is change – change being the mess made by the passage of time. It evolves as nature evolves: scruffily, multifariously and incrementally, its infinite variety matching that of the needs and circumstances of the people it serves. This is what gives words their power to disrupt the status quo –they are radically demotic, belonging to everyone and no one. No top-down initiative or prescription, whether from a right-on NGO or a thundering middle-market tabloid, can rob them of that quality. No actor, however powerful, can control or shape the whole.” Mail Online
Don’t say mother or father as it could offend, Oxfam tells staff Pink News Oxfam hits back at critics of trans-inclusive guidance who claim its 'erasing mums and dads' An Oxfam spokesperson told PinkNews: “We are proud of using inclusive language; we won’t succeed in tackling poverty by excluding marginalised groups. This guide is not prescriptive, it is intended to help authors communicate with the diverse range of people with which we work. “We are disappointed that some people have decided to misrepresent the advice offered in the guide which clearly states that authors should respect the desires of those who want to be described as a mother or father.” Why inclusive language doesn't have to exclude: https://twitter.com/msolurin/status/1638908370274119682?t=yAnw7WkwLYQTKY0DbOUkgg&s=19 Dennis Baron on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrGrammar/status/1638682725585657856 And his book “What’s Your Pronoun?” is really good on the history of much of this. Interesting piece on pronouns and language change
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| Episode 36 - Claire Hardaker and forensic linguistics | 30 Dec 2022 | 00:59:20 | |
Here are the show notes for Episode 36, in which Dan and Lisa talk to Dr Claire Hardaker about:
Claire’s Lancaster University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/claire-hardaker Claire’s en clair podcast: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclair/ Claire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drclaireH Claire on Mastodon: https://mastodonapp.uk/@drclaireh And in our regular Lang in the News segment, Lisa and Dan talk about Words of the Year- which ones have been chosen so far, how they have been selected, why they work (or don’t?) and what they might tell us about 2022. Collins: ‘Sums up 2022’: Permacrisis chosen as Collins word of the year | Culture | The Guardian A year of ‘permacrisis’ - Collins Dictionary Language Blog Oxford Dictionaries: https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2022/#WOTY2022vote ‘Goblin mode’: new Oxford word of the year speaks to the times | Language | The Guardian Cambridge Dictionary: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/editorial/woty Merriam Webster: Word of the Year 2022 | Gaslighting | Merriam-Webster Macquarie: Teal named Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year – ‘an emblem of Australia’s political landscape’ Dictionary dot com: Dictionary.com’s 2022 Word Of The Year Is… Dictionary.com announces word of the year: ‘woman’ | US news | The Guardian Dan’s Independent article about WOTY2022: 2022’s Words of the Year and what they tell us | The Independent | |||
| Episode 35 - an opinion articles special with Harriet Williamson | 23 Dec 2022 | 00:59:34 | |
Here are the show notes for Episode 35, an opinion articles special, in which Dan and Jacky talk to Harriet Williamson, the Voices Commissioning Editor at The Independent about:
Harriet’s Independent page: https://www.independent.co.uk/author/harriet-williamson Harriet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/harriepw Indy Voices on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IndyVoices Harriet’s article on accent-shaming: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/accent-bias-shaming-bbc-english-b2216735.html Harriet on why, if you want to be a writer, it pays to be a reader: https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/editors-letters/better-writer-journalism-reading-stephen-king-b2140181.html Victoria Richards’ article on language and refugees: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/suella-braverman-invasion-migrants-firebombing-b2214905.html And in our regular Lang in the News segment, Lisa, Jacky and Dan discuss and analyse an article by Michael Deacon of the Daily Telegraph that lays into the BBC’s Amol Rajan over his views on accents at the BBC. We also look at two letters from Telegraph readers in response to (and in support of) the Deacon article. We also see how many times we can say Amol Rajan’s name in the space of 30 minutes… Make sure you have the article to hand as we pull it apart! Michael Deacon article here (paywalled version): https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/09/28/amol-rajans-attack-posh-presenters-pure-inverted-snobbery/ Michael Deacon article here (Pressreader version): https://pressreader.com/article/281573769572585 Letters here: https://pressreader.com/article/282093460615450 Amol Rajan’s Cracking the Class Ceiling programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fygr And reviewed here Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2022/12/06/how-crack-class-ceiling-review/ Amol Rajan’s initial points reported here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/27/amol-rajan-accuses-bbc-posh-having-accent-bias | |||
| Episode 34 - Arran Stibbe and ecolinguistics | 26 Nov 2022 | 00:46:36 | |
Show notes for Episode 34 Here are the show notes for Episode 34, in which Dan and Jill talk to Arran Stibbe, professor of Ecological Linguistics, and teacher on the BA English course at the University of Gloucestershire (https://www.glos.ac.uk/enl) about:
Arran’s university page: Arran Stibbe - Staff Profiles Taylor & Francis author interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTiktxHF_pY The book: Ecolinguistics: Language, Ecology and the Stories We Live By - 2nd Edi The Stories We Live By site: Stories We Live By And in our regular Lang in the News segment, Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk about how language is used to represent the environment, how it is used in discussions and political campaigns around green issues and how some metaphors for the economy might not be the best ones to use… Just Stop Oil: research shows how activists and politicians talk differently about climate change Economists question 'black hole' in UK finances - BBC News Economists urge BBC to rethink 'inappropriate' reporting of UK economy | IPPR Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Jill Lavender Twitter: https://twitter.com/JillLavs Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 33 - Katy Brown and discourse analysis | 22 Nov 2022 | 00:44:33 | |
| Episode 32 - Kate Barber and the language of misogyny in online communities | 01 Nov 2022 | 00:43:10 | |
| Episode 31 - Danny Bate and the joys of etymology | 28 Oct 2022 | 00:55:30 | |
Show notes for Episode 31 Here are the show notes for Episode 31, in which Lisa, Dan and (*drumroll*) new Lexis team member, Jill Lavender (*end drumroll*) talk to Edinburgh University PhD student and ‘that etymology guy’, Danny Bate about:
Danny’s website: https://dannybate.com/ Danny on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DannyBate4 Lang in the News links Swearing - It's been in the news a fair bit… https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/oct/20/krishnan-guru-murthy-taken-off-air-for-swearing-about-steve-baker https://preply.com/en/blog/cities-that-swear-most/ The power of swearing: how obscene words influence your mind, body and relationships Good episode of The Bunker podcast about this: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/bunker-bonus-swearing-by-it-why-we-ing-love-to-curse/id1496246490?i=1000582791786 The success of compound swears - ‘shitgibbon’’ ‘fucktrumpet’ and ‘flagshagger’... The rise of the shitgibbon – Strong Language Compound pejoratives on Reddit – from 'buttface' to 'wankpuffin' Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Jill Lavender Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 30 - Jessica Norledge and the Language of Dystopia | 21 Oct 2022 | 00:59:47 | |
Show notes for Episode 30 Here are the show notes for Episode 30, in which Jacky, Dan and Lisa talk to Dr Jessica Norledge, Assistant Professor in Stylistics at the University of Nottingham, about: Stylistics - what it is and how we can use it The language of and in dystopia ‘Text worlds’ and cognitive linguistics Her favourite dystopian novels Jess has just published The Language of Dystopia with Palgrave (see here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-93103-2) - (40% off until Oct 31st 2022 with HAL40 code!) We also talk in our regular Lang in the News segment about recent news stories on emojis, the ‘word gap’ and how ‘culture wars’ news stories are framed, with advice about reading them critically. Jessica Norledge’s University of Nottingham webpage: Jessica Norledge Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessnorledge The book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-93103-2 (40% off until Oct 31st with HAL40 code) Lang in the News links Thumbs up emojis get the thumbs down from Gen Z (or not): Daily Mirror: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/thumbs-up-emoji-branded-inappropriate-28219379 NY Post: Gen Z has canceled the thumbs-up emoji because it's 'hostile' emoji thumbs up NYPost Oct 2022.pdf Thread here: https://twitter.com/EngLangBlog/status/1580276631473516544 The non-story aspect of all this is covered here: https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1580348731215740928 But also the link to other non-stories about generational outrage is worth discussing: Linguists say full stops ‘intimidate young people’ as they seem angry | Metro News Another emoji story this week: geek emoji Article here: geek emoji Nottingham Post Oct 2022.pdf and also covered briefly in Telegraph and Mail Links to an older story in summer about generational use of emojis: Mail emojis generations July 2022.docx Ian Cushing gets the Daily Mail treatment for his critiques of ‘word gap’ discourses Ian’s thread: https://twitter.com/ian_cushing/status/1579731095884820481 The Mail article: Schools branded 'racist' for trying to improve pupils' vocabulary | Daily Mail Online Cushing Mail + later comments Oct 2022.docx Ian’s paper: Full article: Word rich or word poor? Deficit discourses, raciolinguistic ideologies and the resurgence of the ‘word gap’ in England’s education policy Ian’s thread on this: https://twitter.com/ian_cushing/status/1551555550395129856?s=20&t=dNK7RVsA-DrIIgr4C7VXPQ Ian and Julia Snell’s Ofsted paper: The (white) ears of Ofsted: A raciolinguistic perspective on the listening practices of the schools inspectorate | Language in Society | Cambridge Core Discussion of standardised English and Ofsted in the TES: Ofsted: Teaching pupils to speak standard English is 'social justice' Lynne Murphy’s emagazine article ‘How To Read the Language News – Sceptically’ is in emagazine 82 and available (if you have an emag subscription) through this link: emagazine For Advanced Level English Students Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Music: Freenotes End music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 56 - Danielle Turton and dialect study | 03 May 2024 | 00:35:39 | |
Here are the show notes for Episode 56, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Danielle Turton, Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at Lancaster University and Principal Investigator for a Leverhulme funded project on Lancashire rhoticity. We talk about:
Danielle Turton’s Lancaster page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/danielle-turton Danielle Turton’s own pages: https://danielleturton.rbind.io/ The rhoticity paper can be found here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095447023000694 Some of the news stories that we mention: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/researchers-fear-the-spoken-r-is-ready-to-roll-away-from-the-last-bastion-of-rhoticity Telegraph article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/16/blackburn-bristol-traditional-english-accent/ Archived Telegraph link: http://archive.today/pFeod Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Raj Rana Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 29 - JPB Gerald | 17 Sep 2022 | 00:55:44 | |
Show notes for Episode 29 Here are the show notes for Episode 29, in which Dan and Lisa talk to Dr JPB Gerald about the tensions around standard language ideology when teaching English as a foreign language, the problems with the English teaching ‘industry’, and the spread of English around the world, along with many other themes featured in his new book, Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness coming soon (30th September) from Multilingual Matters, Bristol. We also talk in our regular Lang in the News segment about recent news stories about accent reduction and infant-directed speech. JPB Gerald’s podcast: https://anchor.fm/unstandardized Website: https://jpbgerald.com/blog/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JPBGerald The book! https://multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?k=9781800413269 Lang in the News links Infant-directed speech research And this from University of York links nicely: The York English Language Toolkit - changing IDS Making your accent whiter Linked thread here: https://twitter.com/EngLangBlog/status/1562322119022845952 Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Music: Freenotes End music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 28 - Kendra Calhoun | 25 Jun 2022 | 00:50:28 | |
Show notes for Episode 28 Here are the show notes for Episode 28, in which Dan talks to Dr Kendra Calhoun, University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, UCLA about her work on online communication, how racialised identities are performed and constructed online and the power of interdisciplinarity (fine if you can say it). Kendra Calhoun’s UCLA page: https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/kendra-calhoun/ Kendra’s website: https://kendrancalhoun.com/ research pages (where many of the projects we talk about are covered) https://kendrancalhoun.com/research/ and her teaching pages https://kendrancalhoun.com/teaching/ ‘They edited out her nip nops’: Linguistic Innovation as Textual Censorship Avoidance on TikTok - this is the work on TikTok, censorship avoidance and linguistic creativity that we discussed: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BkagHBlDpZNqkMqXTlxsJcL9swApokqu Kendra Calhoun’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/_kendracalhoun Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Music: Freenotes End music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 27 - MLE in the Media special | 19 Jun 2022 | 00:37:16 | |
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| Episode 26 - Robert McKenzie and Speaking of Prejudice | 22 May 2022 | 00:39:51 | |
Show notes for Episode 26 Here are the show notes for Episode 26, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Robert McKenzie of Northumbria University about implicit biases in accent attitudes, the benefits of approaching language study with a multidisciplinary approach and the Speaking of Prejudice project. Robert McKenzie’s Northumbria University webpage https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/en/persons/robert-mckenzie The Speaking of Prejudice project website: https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/languageattitudesengland/ Student resources from Speaking of Prejudice project: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10ui8etPOB2z2OvO6k2ebTIe-56t24rHR/view?usp=sharing Speaking of Prejudice on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SpeechPrejudice Robert McKenzie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/robertm98205445 Teacher resources from Speaking of Prejudice project: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CjuWwWJHMupN_ZRB1CRjQKFo2ZgraZGk/view?usp=sharing The British Academy showcase event can be found here: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/british-academy-summer-showcase-2022/programme-exhibits/ The forthcoming book: https://www.routledge.com/Implicit-and-Explicit-Language-Attitudes-Mapping-Linguistic-Prejudice-and/McKenzie-McNeill/p/book/9780367703530 Robert’s book recommendations: Language Myths by Laurie Bauer and English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the U Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Music: Freenotes End music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 25 - the OED | 11 May 2022 | 00:44:15 | |
Here are the show notes for Episode 25, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Fiona McPherson and Freia Reimink-Layfield about their work on the OED: how they view the role of dictionaries, expand their pool of sources and reassess word definitions as time goes by. OED100: Repainting the dictionary https://public.oed.com/blog/oed100-repainting-the-dictionary/ Blog | Oxford English Dictionary Varieties of English Archives | Oxford English Dictionary Lang in the News Man arrested for allegedly threatening Merriam-Webster over definition of female - ABC News Man arrested for threatening to 'bomb' Merriam-Webster over trans-inclusive definitions 'I want a voice that fits me': teenager's quest for communication aid with Walsall accent Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Music: Freenotes End music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 24 - Kamran Khan | 09 May 2022 | 00:45:27 | |
Show notes for Episode 24 Here are the show notes for Episode 24, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Kamran Khan of the University of Copenhagen about security studies, discourses around refugees and Muslims and the role of language in national identity, especially around language testing and citizenship. Kamran Khan on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SecurityLing Kamran’s ResearchGate page: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kamran-Khan-45 https://archive.discoversociety.org/2020/01/08/the-counter-extremism-shift-in-esol-policy-and-the-double-securitisation-of-muslims/ The New York Times’ Trojan Horse Affair podcast can be found here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/podcasts/trojan-horse-affair.html Lang in the News We talked about this paper by Ian Cushing and Julia Snell: You can read more about it here (check out the comments and Ian’s patient replies too!): And we refer to the TES article that you can find here: https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/general/does-ofsted-have-problem-language-policing LancsBox is here: http://corpora.lancs.ac.uk/lancsbox/download.php Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Music: Freenotes End music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys | |||
| Episode 23 - Gareth Carrol | 11 Apr 2022 | 00:49:00 | |
Show notes for Episode 23
Here are the show notes for Episode 23, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Gareth Carrol of Birmingham University about his new book, Jumping Sharks and Dropping Mics and about modern idioms - where they come from, how they work and how they spread into popular discourse.
Jumping Sharks and Dropping Mics: modern idioms and where they come from website: Jumping sharks and dropping mics from Iff Books
Modern Idioms on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Modern_Idioms
Gareth Carrol on Twitter: https://twitter.com/garethcarrol
Dan was out of practice and forgot to send Gareth our usual quickfire questions so here are his answers:
Favourite book – “Through the Language Glass” by Guy Deutscher. It’s a really accessible take on the Language and Thought (Sapir-Whorf) debate, with some fascinating evidence and examples. Honourable mention goes to “Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation” by David Bellos.
Favourite fact / idea – that being bilingual is the norm, not the exception in the world (over half the world’s population speaks more than one language).
Advice to a budding linguist – be as flexible as you can in how you think about language (and anything else really). There is so much room for fuzziness/variation/ambiguity in how we think about language, and seeing it in these terms (rather than trying to be too rigid and look for clean answers) is a great help in understanding the whole picture.
For anyone who hasn’t heard the expression ‘as bent as a nine bob note’: https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/as+bent+as+a+nine-bob+note
Lang in the News
Accents
Customer asks for refund from York Theatre Royal because actors performed play in Yorkshire accents
Child refugees in city to learn Hull accent and sayings including 'larkin out'
Big piece about accents in The Times in March
What does your accent say about you? | Times2 | The Times
Several related stories, some featuring criticism of Amanda Cole and her Essex colleagues:
Their blog here:
Ask or aks? How linguistic prejudice perpetuates inequality | Blog | University of Essex
University specialists say there is no such thing as 'correct' language and terminology | Daily Mail Online
https://twitter.com/DrAmandaCole/status/1506182631783866368
LBC Vanessa Feltz interview with Amanda Cole: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0bqyvm6 (from 02:16:30 onwards)
Ann Widdecombe in the Daily Express linked here: https://twitter.com/EngLangBlog/status/1506727875134869514
"ACCORDING to academics at the University of Essex there is no such thing as correct language, pronunciation or terminology. Instead they advocate what amounts to linguistic anarchy with anything acceptable such as pronouncing "ask" as "aks" and dismiss any standardisation of usage as "prejudice".
Unfortunately for the students, employers who are looking for articulate applicants with a good command of the language will be perfectly happy to exhibit such prejudice and to choose someone who does not use "like" a dozen times in almost as
many words."
Anti-Welsh accent prejudice here:
https://twitter.com/ElunedAnderson/status/1506015005027807237
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| Episode 22 - Katie Edwards | 09 Nov 2021 | 00:46:41 | |
Show notes for Episode 22
Here are the show notes for Episode 22, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Katie Edwards about grammar pedantry, accent shaming and why ‘grammar nazis’ need to get a life (and a new name).
Warning: this episode contains some explicit language!
Katie Edwards’ website: https://www.katiebedwards.com/
Katie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KatieBEdwards
Katie’s (fairly) recent language articles (some of which we discuss):
Gerraway with accentism – I’m proud to speak Yorkshire | Katie Edwards
No, You’re Shit: Grammar Pedantry and Knowing Your Place
Putting the Accent On Prejudice. Rather than being yet another way to… | by Katie Edwards | Medium
Katie refers to ‘The Apostrophiser’, the grammar vigilante: Meet the 'Grammar Vigilante' of Bristol
Jeremy Paxman’s comments about grammar were “People who care about grammar are regularly characterised as pedants. I say that those who don’t care about it shouldn’t be surprised if we pay no attention to anything they say — if indeed they’re aware of what they’re trying to say.” (from here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-pedant-8kpmpkc8x08)
Katie’s reading recommendation is Speaking Up: Understanding Language and Gender by Allyson Yule: http://allysonjule.com/books/speaking-up/
The letter to The Guardian about ‘talking properly’ that we discuss:
The ‘slang ban’ story that provoked the letter: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/sep/30/oh-my-days-linguists-lament-slang-ban-in-london-school
A thread Dan did on the problems with this letter: https://twitter.com/EngLangBlog/status/1446358649635549206
An article Dan wrote for emagazine about school ‘slang bans’: https://www.dropbox.com/s/81efwb4qfazopns/school%20rules%20article%20final.pdf?dl=0
You can follow Katie’s work by signing up here: https://katieedwards.substack.com/
Katie’s favourite book about language was this: http://allysonjule.com/books/speaking-up/
Language in the News
The older ‘slang ban’ stories can be found here: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/search?q=slang+ban
The Mail’s coverage of the recent south London academy story:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10047177/Oh-days-School-bans-slang-terms-like-bare-raise-literacy-standards.html
Some of the comments that followed the Mail piece: https://twitter.com/mmgiovanelli/status/1444395623315353613
Marcello Giovanelli on Channel 5 News discussing the story and others: https://twitter.com/5_News/status/1444000068118458369
Aston University Sociology style guide story in the Times:
Some of the comments that followed the story on Aston Uni: https://twitter.com/EngLangBlog/status/1446745305777573895
Evan Smith’s No Platform book: https://www.routledge.com/No-Platform-A-History-of-Anti-Fascism-Universities-and-the-Limits-of-Free/Smith/p/book/9781138591684
Evan Smith interviewed on the Radikaal podcast: https://podtail.com/podcast/radikaal/12-evan-smith-on-no-platform-and-so-called-cancel-/
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| Episode 21 - Robbie Love | 22 Sep 2021 | 00:47:21 | |
Show notes for Episode 21
Here are the show notes for Episode 21, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Robbie Love about his work on corpora, spoken English and how he has been looking at changes in swearing patterns in spoken English.
🔺Warning: this episode contains explicit language!🔻
Robbie Love’s website: https://robbielove.org/
Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lovermob
A link to the paper in Text and Talk:
Love, R. (2021). Swearing in informal spoken English: 1990s – 2010s. Text and Talk, 41, Special Issue: ‘Corpus Linguistics across the Generations: In Memory of Geoffrey Leech’.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/text-2020-0051/html
Some of the media coverage for Robbie’s recent research is covered in the ‘Media’ page of Robbie’s site: https://robbielove.org/media/
Some great resources here for A level teachers and students!
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| Episode 20 - Sandra Jansen | 29 Aug 2021 | 00:34:41 | |
Show notes for Episode 20
Here are the show notes for Episode 20, a Language in the News special, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Sandra Jansen of Paderborn University about linguistics stories in the media and discuss stories around accent bias, dialect change and suggestions for reading and evaluating stories about language in the media.
Sandra Jansen’s Paderborn University page: https://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/person/66815/
Sandra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sj2915
Sandra says she can send the English Today article, Predicting the Future of English, that’s mentioned in the article if you want to contact her.
Alex Scott & Digby Jones
Original tweets here: https://twitter.com/Digbylj/status/1421164856527437825
Alex Scott’s response here: https://twitter.com/AlexScott/status/1421257347419213831
Digby Chicken Caesar doubles down here: https://twitter.com/Digbylj/status/1421448009238388737
Excellent thread from a linguist, Bethan Tovey-Walsh here: https://twitter.com/LinguaCelta/status/1421460631304146951
And another thread (from Claire Hardaker) here: https://twitter.com/DrClaireH/status/1421398857255116801
Longer read from Claire Hardaker: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/drclaireh/2021/08/02/digby-lord-jones-the-man-who-took-on-linguistics-and-lost/
Katie Edwards piece here:: https://katiebedwards.medium.com/putting-the-accent-on-prejudice-a2894d5d0670
Deborah Cameron on the Alex Scott/Digby Jones story and attacks on women’s speech: https://debuk.wordpress.com/2021/08/07/speakin-while-female/
Accentism thread of reader comments:
https://twitter.com/AccentismProj/status/1421899858391228419
Predicting Dialect change
Full paper here: Inferring the drivers of language change using spatial models
Summary here: Northern English verbal mannerisms being lost
News stories here:
Ee bah gone? How northern accents could be dead in 45 years
Northern accents could sound southern by 2066, study finds
Northern accents are dying out and could DISAPPEAR BY 2066
Northern accents could be wiped out in less than 50 years, scientist says
Opinion piece based on the story here
Thread from Tamsin Blaxter (Cambridge linguist behind the language side of the project) here: https://twitter.com/tweetolectology/status/1421126516012986370
‘The Sound of 2066’ project (paper on ResearchGate): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308793528_Watt_D_Gunn_B_2016_%27The_sound_of_2066_A_report_commissioned_by_HSBC%27_26th_September_2016
Some of the stories around it:
It's the end of the frog and toad for regional slang, says report
'Th' sound vanishing from English language with Cockney and other dialects set to 'die out by 2066'
How will Brits speak in 50 years? The Sound of 2066
Regional accents to end within 50 years according to new report
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| Episode 55 - Christian Ilbury and online language | 30 Apr 2024 | 00:38:40 | |
Here are the show notes for Episode 55, in which Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Christian Ilbury, Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences at The University of Edinburgh about:
Christian’s University of Edinburgh profile: https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/christian-ilbury Some appearances in the media that we mention: https://theconversation.com/theyre-serving-what-how-the-c-word-went-from-camp-to-internet-mainstream-210214 “You have quite a long history of British vernaculars being exported through British cultural forms,” says Christian Ilbury, a lecturer in sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh – from Scouse accents with the Beatles to Arctic Monkeys and the presence of industrial working-class accents in indie music. “Grime essentially became the vehicle in which we perceived MLE.” Those kids in suburban England, he says, “don’t speak this variety because of where they grew up. They’re using it to align with a cultural orientation that they appreciate.” https://linguistics-research-digest.blogspot.com/2019/10/ ‘Slay’, ‘yaas kween’, ‘squad’ – if you’re a keen social media, you might be familiar with some of these words. Originally from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) – a variety of English spoken by some Black Americans – these terms have quickly become part of the internet grammar. But, how and why have these terms entered our lexicon and what does the use of AAVE in internet communication mean? This and other questions are examined by Christian Ilbury in his recent paper. The episode of Lexis that we mention in which we interviewed Shivonne gates about MLE in East London: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5leNPWkgQTMFzZ2UHRktnC Christian’s book recommendation can be found here: Homegirls: Language and Cultural Practice among Latina Youth Gangs. London: Blackwell. “In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña and Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks at the daily lives of young Latinas and their innovative use of speech, bodily practices, and symbolic exchanges that signal their gang affiliations and ideologies. Her engrossing ethnographic and sociolinguistic study reveals the connection of language behavior and other symbolic practices among Latina gang girls in California,and their connections to larger social processes of nationalism,racial/ethnic consciousness, and gender identity.” https://www.norma-mendoza-denton.com/books Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Raj Rana Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 19 - Elena Semino | 18 Aug 2021 | 00:41:04 | |
Show notes for Episode 19
Here are the show notes for Episode 19 in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Professor Elena Semino of Lancaster University about:
The power of metaphor
The universality of metaphor
Metaphors for Covid, health campaigns and vaccinations
Elena Semino’s Lancaster University webpage: Professor Elena Semino
Elena on Twitter: Elena Semino (@elenasemino)
Reframe Covid pages: #ReframeCovid
Questioning Vaccine Discourse project: Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project (@vaccine_project)
We’ll be back with a Language in the News special for episode 20 later this summer.
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Dan Clayton
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Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
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| Episode 18 - Emma Byrne | 09 Jun 2021 | 00:50:22 | |
*Explicit warning* Show notes for Episode 18 Here are the show notes for Episode 18 - our first birthday episode! - where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about: ‘So’ and why it annoys language pedants and prescriptivists. Language discourses around two texts discussing ‘so’. And we talk to Dr Emma Byrne, author of ‘Swearing Is Good For You: the amazing science of bad language’ about...swearing. Obvs. Emma Byrne’s Swearing is Good for You page: Swearing is Good for You – Emma Byrne, Science Writer and Broadcaster Emma Byrne in The Guardian: Swear by it: why bad language is good for you | Emma Byrne Emma Byrne in Time Magazine: The Benefits of Swearing Emma Byrne in Elle: There's a Swearing Double Standard—and Women Can Change It - Emma Byrne on Gendered Perception of Swearing Broca’s area in the brain: The Broca Area and Language Production Wernicke’s area in the brain: WikiPedia: Wernicke's area Sophie Scott on Why we Laugh Sophie Scott: Why we laugh | TED Talk Sophie Scott on Why do Humans Laugh Why do humans laugh? So Alec Marsh in The Spectator on ‘so’ The remorseless rise of 'so' Lane Greene has responded on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lanegreene/status/1392805484768468993 He links to this https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/so-and-so-that-coordinating-or-subordinating-conjunctions?page=1 And there’s already been several peeve fests about ‘so’ over the years: So Here's Why Everyone Is Starting Sentences With The Word 'So' How A Popular Two-Letter Word Is Undermining Your Credibility So Shoot Me – Frank McNally on the sentence-opener of the century (so far) Today presenter John Humphrys declare war on the use of the word 'so' So, here's a carefully packaged sentence that shows me in my best light | Oliver James And this is a good piece on it: https://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/432732859/so-whats-the-big-deal-with-starting-a-sentence-with-so?t=1620925294688 In defence of the word 'so' - a much better take on ‘so’ from Elizabeth East. Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Music: Freenotes | |||
| Episode 17 - Dr Amanda Cole | 28 May 2021 | 00:46:43 | |
Show notes for Episode 17
Here are the show notes for Episode 17 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
‘Woke’... are we woke? Are we fighting a war on woke? What does it even mean and why is it being used to attack people for just being nice humans?
Meghan Markle’s representation in the tabloid press
And we talk to Dr Amanda Cole from the University of Essex about accents, identity and how accents in the South East of England have been changing.
Barbara Windsor: you're more likely to hear a cockney accent in Essex than east London now
Accentism is alive and well – and it doesn't only affect the north of England
There's still a hierarchy of accents in Britain and why talking with the 'wrong' one might hold you back
Ethnic minorities ‘deemed less intelligent because of their accents’ (paywalled)
Amanda Cole on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmanditaCole
Amanda Cole University of Essex page: https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/colea17303/amanda-cole
Amanda Cole is speaking at the next emagazine English Language conference for students! More details here: EMC Online: English Language A Level Student Conference (30th June 2021 2-4pm) | Conferences
Woke
The Woke Handbook for Boomers | Magazine (paywalled)
What does 'woke' really mean and why is Tesla CEO Elon Musk mocking it?
'WOKE' NOT WOKE
What does 'woke' mean? The origins of the term, and how its meaning has changed
How the word ‘woke’ was weaponised by the right (Trigger warning: contains images of both Laurence Fox and Toby Young)
Meghan Markle
Here Are 20 Headlines Comparing Meghan Markle To Kate Middleton That Might Show Why She And Prince Harry Are Cutting Off Royal Reporters
Comparing How Meghan Markle is Discussed in the Press vs. Kate Middleton | GreenBook
*Quick note: at 45:10 we mention ‘abstract verbs’. We obviously meant ‘abstract nouns’: please forgive us.*
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| Episode 16 Ffion Brown | 25 Apr 2021 | 00:31:06 | |
Show notes for Episode 16
Welcome to Episode 16 of the Lexis podcast and our first new episode of 2021, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
The language of news reports on violence against women
The power of language to represent and frame events
And we talk to Ffion Brown about her work on the representation of mental health.
Some of Ffion’s reading suggestions:
Methods of Critical Discourse Studies - Ruth Wodak (Editor) Michael Meyer (Editor)
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/methods-of-critical-discourse-studies/9781446282410
The Little Prince
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-little-prince-colour-illustrations/9781909621558
Language in the News
https://twitter.com/_chris_hart/status/1370868282216026113?s=20
‘Elite police officer appears in court charged with woman’s murder’ - Times headline
https://twitter.com/JNRaeside/status/1370774580948824065?s=20
Reporting on the Atlanta Spa Shootings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/17/jay-baker-bad-day/
“He was pretty much fed up and kind of at the end of his rope. Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jay Baker said Wednesday. He was describing the 21-year-old man accused of killing eight people, mostly Asian and almost all women, in a rampage across three Atlanta-area spas.
UK headlines about an attack on a teenage girl in Derby
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1370799588160983042?s=20
Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women - it’s a men’s issue
https://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_issue/transcript
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Dan Clayton
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Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
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| Episode 15 - Dana Gablasova | 31 Dec 2020 | 00:38:55 | |
Show notes for Episode 15
Welcome to Episode 15 of the Lexis podcast, our last for the hellscape that has been 2020, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
Words of the Year
Words entering the dictionary
Words leaving the dictionary
And we talk to Dr Dana Gablasova from Lancaster University about Corpus Linguistics:
what it involves
what it can offer to students investigating language
the ways it can open up questions to explore in data
some important recent studies
the Corpus in Schools project
Dana Gablasova’s Lancaster University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/dana-gablasova
Dana’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/danagablas
The Corpus for Schools homepage: Corpus in classrooms | Corpus for Schools
Future Learn’s Corpus Linguistics MOOC: Corpus Linguistics Analysis - Online Course
The BNC: [bnc] British National Corpus
The BNC 2014: British National Corpus 2014
Baker, Gabrielatos, McEnery, Sketching Muslims: (PDF) Sketching Muslims: A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word 'Muslim' in the British Press 1998-2009
Semino, Demjen, Hardie, Payne: Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: (PDF) Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-Based Study
Elena Semino on Covid metaphors: 'A fire raging': Why fire metaphors work well for Covid-19 - Making Science Public
Reframe Covid: #ReframeCovid - Contribute
Louise Mullany and Loretta Trickett: A comic strip to fight misogyny hate crime
Paul Baker on corpus methods to explore the representation of gay men in the UK press: Language, Sexuality and Corpus Linguistics: Concerns and Future Directions Paul Baker Abstract In this paper I discuss the poten
Language in the News
Summary of selected WOTY choices
Oxford: too many to decide...
Collins: lockdown
Cambridge: quarantine
Australian Dictionary: iso
Macquarie: rona & doomscrolling
Merriam Webster (USA): pandemic
Oxford report: Oxford Word of the Year 2020 | Oxford Languages
The American Dialect Society has different categories and voted for a range of good ones, even if their main WOTY (covid) was a bit dull: American Dialect Society
Collins Dictionary WOTY: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/woty
Cambridge Dictionary: https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2020/11/24/cambridge-dictionarys-word-of-the-year-2020/
David Shariatmadari in The Guardian: Pandemic, lockdown and Megxit: the most influential words of 2020
Irish Times: The word of the year is defined as 'watching Normal People in your pyjamas'. What is it?
Merriam Webster on US WOTY: Word of the Year 2020 | Pandemic
Piece on Australian WOTY: https://theconversation.com/rona-iso-quazza-words-of-the-year-speak-to-our-australian-take-on-covid-150949
Macquarie’s Covid words of 2020: The Macquarie Dictionary COVID Word of the Year shortlist
Macquarie’s overall list (Karen, Covidiot and Doomscrolling): https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/word/of/the/year/2020
UK education top ten words of 2020: Word of the year 2020: the teachers' choice
Essex Girl removed from dictionary
https://news.sky.com/story/essex-girl-removed-from-dictionary-after-campaigners-claim-term-is-offensive-12151727
'Essex girl' removed from dictionary following campaign
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Jacky Glancey
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Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CI3kZ7rZq5C70AyM2D-XVm3vF_DUno3vuSkIWrNNoa4/edit?usp=sharing
Here’s to a better 2021...
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| Episode 14 - Emma Moore | 24 Dec 2020 | 00:43:49 | |
Show notes for Episode 14
Welcome to Episode 14 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
How language frames and represents people and events
Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp
Advice to women about personal safety
And we talk to Professor Emma Moore from the University of Sheffield in a wide-ranging interview about:
non-standard English and how it’s used for different purposes
the importance of understanding the societal origins of attitudes to language
why we need to understand the differences between spoken and written systems
...and how sociolinguistics saved our lives!
Emma Moore’s Sheffield University page: Professor Emma Moore | English
Emma Moore’s Eden Village Girls study: “I were out with Lucy last week. She were in a right good mood.”
What Did You Say? https://festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk/2020/futurecade/what-did-you-say/
What Did You Say? Podcast episode: https://festivalofthemind.sheffield.ac.uk/2020/spiegeltent/what-did-you-say-podcast/
Jenny Cheshire’s Reading study: Jenny Cheshire – Linguistic Variation and Social Function – All About Linguistics
Penelope Eckert’s High School study: Penelope Eckert – High School Ethnography
Peter Trudgill’s Norwich study: Peter Trudgill, Norwich
Lesley Milroy’s Belfast studies: Milroy's Belfast Study
Language in the News
The representation of (convicted murderer of Reeva Steenkamp) Oscar Pistorius:
Sonia Sodha on Twitter: "My god BBC. “The extraordinary story of paralympic and Olympic sprinter” who “suddenly found himself at the centre of a murder investigation.” Extraordinary? Found himself? INSPIRATIONAL?! No way to talk about a convicted murderer. Talk about minimising the murder of women.… https://t.co/dW8dZoRpiZ"
Anya Palmer on Twitter: "They've changed it to say he killed her. Still not saying he murdered her. He was charged with murder when he MURDERED his girlfriend.… https://t.co/4gAOrU3UML"
https://twitter.com/soniasodha/status/1321367689475067904
Debbie Cameron on Twitter: "So, we can add 'found himself at the centre of a murder investigation' to the already long list of convoluted formulas the media use to gloss over men's violence against women and make the perpetrators into tragic heroes. (See also the play on the word 'trials' in the title)… https://t.co/koQUBG2eYV"
Police advice to women:
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1316307733147246594?s=20
https://twitter.com/MisterLJones/status/1316810550190407680?s=20
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Music: Freenotes
Transcript:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iaQEzsVjifbKajiYJPob54-AHGoAGiAwk-mfLjD5M_o/edit?usp=drivesdk
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| Episode 13 - Accent Special | 15 Dec 2020 | 00:25:17 | |
SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT AT BOTTOM)
Show notes for Episode 13
Welcome to Episode 13 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about accent in an accent prejudice special, including:
Negative attitudes to regional and social accents
Social attitudes to ‘regional’ accents
Humour, pride and regional/social identity online
Doric covid warnings
As part of this we also talk to Lauren White whose report into accent and social attitudes at Durham University spurred several of these stories.
Lauren’s report is here:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344434314_A_REPORT_ON_NORTHERN_STUDENT_EXPERIENCE_AT_DURHAM_UNIVERSITY
Language in the News
Students from northern England facing 'toxic attitude' at Durham University (this is the one based on Lauren’s report)
Guardian main story on accent discrimination and class: UK's top universities urged to act on classism and accent prejudice
Guardian on accent discrimination: 'It's had a lasting impact': students on being bullied over their accents
UK students: Have you been ridiculed over your accent or background?
Accentism against Essex: Accentism is alive and well – and it doesn't only affect the north of England
Rob Drummond discussing use of ‘regional’ re accents: https://twitter.com/RobDrummond/status/1319923837824356352
University of York on accent attitudes: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2019/research/regional-accents-doesn't-hold-back-top-jobs/
Various articles on attitudes to accents based on a marketing survey from OnBuy:
Yorkshire most trustworthy accent in the UK, says survey | Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Yorkshire Accent Has Been Voted Most Trustworthy Accent In The UK
Brummie accent named least trustworthy in the UK, study reveals
Sexiest accents from (ahem) Illicit Encounters survey (Trigger Warning: features a picture of Barry Chuckle):
Men from Yorkshire have England's sexiest accent, poll finds
Accents/dialects discriminated against on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/EngLangBlog/status/1319014609781739520
Interesting and effective use of representation of accent/dialect:
https://twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1319021626311180291?s=20
Doric Covid warnings:
https://www.grampianonline.co.uk/news/doric-coronavirus-advice-tells-ye-fit-ye-need-ta-dee-195854/
Accent Bias in Britain project: https://accentbiasbritain.org/
The Accentism Project: http://accentism.org/
Eccentricity podcast: https://www.accentricity-podcast.com/
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Music: Freenotes
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| Episode 12 - Vanja Karanovic | 18 Nov 2020 | 00:41:00 | |
Show notes for Episode 12
Welcome to Episode 12 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
Children’s language development via Twitter videos of babies with huskies, lullabies and big-scale projects that measure children’s lockdown language.
We also talk to Dr Vanja Karanovic about bilingual children’s language development.
Vanja’s Twitter page: https://twitter.com/DrVanjaK
Some of the texts referred to:
Grosjean, F, 2012, Bilingual: Life and Reality, Harvard University Press
Crystal, D, 1989, Listen to Your Child (2nd edition), Penguin (Chapter 7)
De Houwer, A.,2009, BIlingual First Language Acquisition, Multilingual Matter
Language in the News
Baby and Husky: https://imgur.com/gallery/sakCQNd
Constance Bainbridge on lullaby research: https://twitter.com/conBainbridge/status/1318294620778995716
Julien Mayor: https://twitter.com/julien__mayor/status/1321922810634227712
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Music: Freenotes
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| Episode 11 - Catherine Laing | 17 Oct 2020 | 00:35:46 | |
Welcome to Episode 11 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
Interruptions: in the US presidential debate, in online classrooms via TikTok and how gender and power are factors in how we are treated in conversations.
We also talk to Dr Catherine Laing from Cardiff University’s Centre for Language and Communication Research about child language development and infant-directed speech.
Catherine Laing’s University page: https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/921190-laing-catherine
Catherine’s Twitter account: https://twitter.com/cathelaing24
Schieffelin and Ochs’s paper (1986) on how child-directed speech isn’t used in some societies: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/ochs/articles/Schieffelin_Ochs_1986_Language_Socialization.pdf
Casillas, Brown and Levinson on verbal interaction with children in a southern Mexico village https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.13349
Cristia, Dupoux, Gurven & Stieglitz on verbal interaction with children in lowland Bolivia: https://srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/cdev.12974
Babel, The Language Magazine: https://babelzine.co.uk/
The Vocal Fries podcast
https://vocalfriespod.com/
Language in the News
Interruptions in the US presidential debate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/trump-interruptions-first-presidential-debate-biden.html
Interruptions between Trump and Clinton in 2016: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/9/27/13017666/presidential-debate-trump-clinton-sexism-interruptions
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-third-presidential-debate-how-many-times-interruptions-sexism-a7371286.html
Interruptions of a woman in STEM (via TikTok): https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/woman-in-stem-interruptions-tiktok/
Deborah Cameron on interruptions and gender: https://debuk.wordpress.com/2020/08/15/woman-interrupted/
Language in Conflict: https://languageinconflict.org/
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Music: Freenotes
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| E10 Language, sexuality and identity special | 22 Sep 2020 | 01:00:24 | |
Show notes for Episode 10
Welcome to Episode 10 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
Another bad article about language, which takes a swipe at people who ask for people to respect their pronoun choices.
We also talk to Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics at the University of Nottingham, Dr Lucy Jones about language, sexuality, gender and identity.
Lucy Jones’ blog: https://queerlinglang.wordpress.com/
Lucy Jones’ University of Nottingham page: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/people/lucy.jones
Lucy’s Twitter account: https://twitter.com/jones_lucy
Robert Podesva’s study on falsetto and identity: https://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/Courses/l1562018/Readings/Podesva2007.pdf
Language in the News
Here’s the article by Joanna Williams in The Times that we analysed:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/declaring-your-pronouns-is-pure-narcissism-7rffv2mrz
A couple of the bits we talked about are reproduced below:
Declaring your pronouns is pure narcissism
An identity-obsessed minority with too much time on its hands has lost touch with reality
Joanna Williams
I’m Joanna, she/her. You probably guessed that from my name and my photo. But declaring one’s pronouns is all the rage and I’d hate to appear out of touch.
I’m all for denying biology. I pretend I’m not getting older and can still drink too much without suffering the next day. I pretend I can fit into clothes I bought 20 years ago. But I don’t insist other people confirm my delusions. Demanding to be called they/them rather than he/she is to insist that the rest of the world share in your fantasy.
When Jeremy Corbyn spoke at the Pink News awards late last year he began his speech by saying: “My name is Jeremy Corbyn, pronouns he/him.” Surely no one in attendance doubted Corbyn’s manhood, or that men are commonly referred to as “he”.
People devise all kinds of ways to signal their political beliefs, particularly when they decide that doing so makes them out to be especially virtuous.
Pronoun-declaring is, in truth, a game played by an identity-obsessed minority with far too much time on its hands. Forced attempts at normalising pronoun introductions may be done in the name of inclusivity but they reveal only how hopelessly out of touch those who run our universities, local authorities and political parties have become. They no longer have any idea how normal people talk to each other.
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Music: Freenotes
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| Episode 54 - Florent Moncomble | 24 Apr 2024 | 00:48:57 | |
Here are the show notes for Episode 54, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Florent Moncomble, Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at University of Artois, France about what English and French have in common and all the discourses swirling around French that are also relevant to English, including:
Florent’s links: https://linktr.ee/f_moncomble Les Linguistes Atterrées: https://www.tract-linguistes.org/ L'Académie Française: https://www.academie-francaise.fr/ and a Guardian story about it: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/16/academie-francaise-denounces-rise-of-english-words-in-public-life Bernard Cerquiglini on why English isn’t a real language: Contributors Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Raj Rana Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys
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| Episode 9 - Tony Thorne | 03 Sep 2020 | 00:53:23 | |
Show notes for Episode 9
Welcome to Episode 9 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
Good and bad articles about language, featuring an absolute peeve-fest from James Innes-Smith in The Spectator and a much better one from Stan Carey on emoji panics on the MacMillan Dictionary blog.
We also talk to author, lexicographer, slang expert and visiting language consultant at King’s College, London, Tony Thorne about new words and lots more!
Tony’s Twitter page: https://twitter.com/tonythorne007
Tony Thorne’s King’s College page: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/foundations/tony-thorne/who-is-tony-thorne
Language and Innovation: Tony’s blog which chronicles much of his recent work on new words: https://language-and-innovation.com/
Coronaspeak: #CORONASPEAK – the language of Covid-19 goes viral
Kate Burridge and Howard Manns onn pandemic vocabulary: 'Iso', 'boomer remover' and 'quarantini': how coronavirus is changing our language
Language in the News
Here’s the article from The Spectator that we analysed: War of the words: have we stopped making sense?
(Hat Tip to Havant and South Downs College for the link to the Spectator article: https://twitter.com/HSDCEngLang)
We also made reference to this article by Lindsay Johns: Ghetto grammar robs the young of a proper voice
If you want to see some responses to the Lindsay Johns article, many of which are relevant to the Spectator one too, try here: EngLangBlog: Ghetto grammar and here: Thoughts on Lindsay Johns and 'Ghetto Grammar'
We liked this article by Stan Carey, though: Will emojis ruin English?
Find more of Stan’s writing through here: https://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/author/stan-carey and here: https://twitter.com/StanCarey
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Music: Freenotes
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| Episode 8 - Northern accent special | 21 Aug 2020 | 00:29:09 | |
Show notes for Episode 8
Here are the show notes for Episode 8 which is a special edition on Northern accents where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew (2 proper Northerners, a Welsh person and a soft, southern shandy drinker) talk about:
Northern accents, dialect levelling and reports of a new ‘educated middle class northern English accent’ emerging.
And we talk to Dr Georgina Brown from Lancaster University about the study itself.
Georgina Brown’s Lancaster University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/georgina-brown
Northern accents are becoming more similar, suggests new research
A link posted by project leader Patrycja Strycharczuk about the Manchester research: Strycharczuk et al.’s Frontiers paper sparks controversy
The paper itself can be found here: General Northern English. Exploring Regional Variation in the North of England With Machine Learning
Patrycja Strycharczuk (@PatStrycharczuk)
Kevin Watson on Scouse: Scousers are proud of their accent
Cambridge University’s app to measure dialect change: Do you say splinter, spool, spile or spell? English Dialects app tries to guess your regional accent
Cambridge app maps decline in regional diversity of English dialects
Media reports on the paper
Guardian: Northern English accents becoming more similar, researchers find
Mail Online: Northern accents 'are becoming more similar'
Daily Telegraph: Northern accents becoming more similar as middle-class 'General Northern English' emerges, study finds
Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/northern-accents-more-similar-distinct-cities-manchester-leeds-sheffield-a9623071.html
A great Twitter account to follow if you want to see how Twitter can be used for dialect research: https://twitter.com/tweetolectology
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Music: Freenotes
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| Philip Seargeant - E7 | 30 Jul 2020 | 00:48:43 | |
Show notes for Episode 7 Here are the show notes for Episode 7 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
And we talk to Dr Philip Seargeant of the Open University about emoji and political storytelling. Philip Seargeant’s university page: http://www.open.ac.uk/people/ps4549 Philip Seargeant’s website: Philip Seargeant Twitter: https://twitter.com/philipseargeant Philip Seargeant on emoji: https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/emoji-digital-language-of-emotion-phillip-seargeant/ Philip Seargeant on political storytelling: https://www.ft.com/content/d0d0f4ec-a4d2-11ea-92e2-cbd9b7e28ee6 (paywalled) The Special Adviser's Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid Irregardless https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/06/is-irregardless-a-real-word-dictionary Peter Sokolowski of Merriam Webster Dictionaries discusses ‘irregardless’ in a Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/PeterSokolowski/status/1280585356908388352 ‘Man overboard’ Sailors told to stop using Navy terms like 'unmanned' and 'man power' Royal Navy bans terms 'unmanned' and 'manpower' because it's 'sexist' Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify Contributors Matthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy Lisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates) Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog) Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey Music: Freenotes | |||
| Kelly Wright - E6 | 18 Jul 2020 | 00:45:45 | |
Show notes for Episode 6
Here are the show notes for Episode 6 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
language change related to the term ‘Karen’ and how its meaning has drifted and been debated
the changing of the name of Washington’s American Football team
And we talk to Kelly Wright in a wide-ranging interview about her work in experimental sociolinguistics, how race and ethnicity are represented in language, blackness and whiteness in voices and lots more...
Kelly Wright’s website: Covert Racism | Wright Linguistics
Publications and interviews: https://kellywright5.wixsite.com/raciolinguistics/recent-publications
John Rickford on Rachel Jeantel’s testimony at the George Zimmerman trial: Stanford linguist: prejudice toward African American dialect can result in unfair rulings
A link to a presentation on housing discrimination: https://youtu.be/2YiSTziPt5o
Kelly Wright on Twitter: https://twitter.com/raciolinguistic
Groundbreaking report reveals racial bias in English football commentary
The RunRepeat study: Racial Bias in Football Commentary (Study)
Karen
How 'Karen' went from a popular baby name to a stand-in for white entitlement
What is and where did it come from? This from the Indy: What is the Karen meme and is it a misogynistic slur? | indy100
Hadley freeman in the Guardian on Karen being sexist: The 'Karen' meme is everywhere – and it has become mired in sexism
Karen Attiah in the Washington Post about why it's not oppressive: Opinion | The ‘Karen’ memes and jokes aren’t sexist or racist. Let a Karen explain.
A bit of a more nuanced suggestion that it allows white women to uphold white supremacy: I am no longer Outside in a AMG on Twitter
Changing the Washington NFL team name
(We’ve chosen not to use the team name here but you’ll find it referred to in some of these articles.)
An NFL Name Change That Has Been a Long Time Coming
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53390944
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/07/18/renaming-the-washington-redskins
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Music: Freenotes
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