Lexis

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/DrVa...

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-...

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’...

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...

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 Unive...

Show notes for Episode 7 H ere are the show notes for Episode 7 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about: ‘Irregardless’ and why this word causes prescriptivists such angst. The Daily Mail going overboard on ‘man overboard’ and why challenging sexist language gets such a bad press. And we talk to Dr Philip Seargeant of the Open University about emoji and political storytelling. Philip Seargea...

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 r...

Show notes for Episode 5 Here are the show notes for Episode 5 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about language change and some of the arguments around banning and censoring language - the word game, Scrabble ‘banning’ racial slurs - slaves and masters, master bedrooms and nitty gritty: words that are being challenged and reviewed - political correctness, cancel culture and wokeness And we t...

Here are the show notes for Episode 4 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about - sacking headlines: who’s been sacked and who’s doing the sacking? - TikTok teens and K-Pop stans trolling Trump - and talk to Dr Shivonne Gates about Multicultural London English and how language is used by teenagers to express their social identities. You can find the links to the stories and research we’ve ment...

Show notes for Episode 3 Here are the show notes for Episode 3, where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about - the language of subtitles: turning non-standard into Standard English? - the changing meanings and interpretations of gestures: taking a knee and what it might mean - and talk to Professor Devyani Sharma of QMUL about accents, identity and how to deal with accent bias… among other things...

Here are the show notes for Episode 2, where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about - the language used to report political protests, demonstrations and movements around the Black Lives Matter campaign - the language of the placards on the recent BLM London demonstration - and talk to Dr Rob Drummond from Manchester Metropolitan University about youth language, accents and how linguists can educa...

Lexis Podcast Show notes for episode 1 Here are the show notes for Episode 1, where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about - trending hashtags in the Dominic Cummings scandal - track and trace employees ‘sounding professional’ - the introduction of a Northern accent for the Beeb - and English with Lucy You can find the links to the stories and research we’ve mentioned in this programme, below. Do...