Lexis
A podcast about language and linguistics for A Level students, teachers and anyone else who's interested in language.
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Episode 46 - Paul Kerswill & MLE
November 26th, 2023
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, …
Episode 45 - Alex Baratta and accentism
November 11th, 2023
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 …
Episode 44 - Kingsley Ugwuanyi + Amanda Cole
November 6th, 2023
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 …
Episode 43 - language & gender special part 2
July 27th, 2023
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, …
Episode 42 - Deborah Cameron, language & gender special part 1
July 16th, 2023
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, …
Episode 41 - Johanna Gerwin and London English
June 26th, 2023
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 …
Episode 40 - York English Language Toolkit
June 7th, 2023
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 …
Episode 39: Dan Collen on weaponized laughter memes & Heddwen Newton on Lang in the News
May 28th, 2023
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 …
Episode 38 - Anna Islentyeva and the representation of masculinity in advertising
April 23rd, 2023
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 …
Episode 37 - Heidi Colthup and the language of gaming
March 25th, 2023
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 …
Episode 36 - Claire Hardaker and forensic linguistics
December 30th, 2022
Here are the show notes for Episode 36, in which Dan and Lisa talk to Dr Claire Hardaker about:
- Forensic linguistics
- What language can reveal …
Episode 35 - an opinion articles special with Harriet Williamson
December 23rd, 2022
Here are the show notes for Episode 35, an opinion articles special, in which Dan and Jacky talk to Harriet Williamson, the Voices Commissioning …
Episode 34 - Arran Stibbe and ecolinguistics
November 26th, 2022
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, …
Episode 33 - Katy Brown and discourse analysis
November 22nd, 2022
Episode 32 - Kate Barber and the language of misogyny in online communities
November 1st, 2022
Episode 31 - Danny Bate and the joys of etymology
October 28th, 2022
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 …
Episode 30 - Jessica Norledge and the Language of Dystopia
October 21st, 2022
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 …
Episode 29 - JPB Gerald
September 17th, 2022
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 …
Episode 28 - Kendra Calhoun
June 25th, 2022
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 …
Episode 27 - MLE in the Media special
June 19th, 2022
Show notes for Episode 27 Here are the show notes for Episode 27, an MLE in the media special, in which we talk to Dr Matt Hunt Gardner from the …
Episode 26 - Robert McKenzie and Speaking of Prejudice
May 22nd, 2022
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 …
Episode 25 - the OED
May 11th, 2022
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 …
Episode 24 - Kamran Khan
May 9th, 2022
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 …
Episode 23 - Gareth Carrol
April 11th, 2022
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 …
Episode 22 - Katie Edwards
November 9th, 2021
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 …
Episode 21 - Robbie Love
September 22nd, 2021
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 …
Episode 20 - Sandra Jansen
August 29th, 2021
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 …
Episode 19 - Elena Semino
August 18th, 2021
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
…
Episode 18 - Emma Byrne
June 9th, 2021
*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 …
Episode 17 - Dr Amanda Cole
May 28th, 2021
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 …
Episode 16 Ffion Brown
April 25th, 2021
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 …
Episode 15 - Dana Gablasova
December 31st, 2020
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 …
Episode 14 - Emma Moore
December 24th, 2020
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 …
Episode 13 - Accent Special
December 15th, 2020
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 …
Episode 12 - Vanja Karanovic
November 18th, 2020
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 …
Episode 11 - Catherine Laing
October 17th, 2020
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 …
E10 Language, sexuality and identity special
September 22nd, 2020
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 …
Episode 9 - Tony Thorne
September 3rd, 2020
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 …
Episode 8 - Northern accent special
August 21st, 2020
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) …
Philip Seargeant - E7
July 30th, 2020
Show notes for Episode 7
Here are the show notes for Episode 7 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
- ‘Irregardless’ and why this word …
Kelly Wright - E6
July 18th, 2020
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 …
Ian Cushing - E5
July 11th, 2020
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 …
Shivonne Gates - E4
July 4th, 2020
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 …
Devyani Sharma - E3
June 27th, 2020
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 …
Rob Drummond - E2
June 19th, 2020
Here are the show notes for Episode 2, where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about
- the language used to report political protests, demonstrations …
Language in the News - E1
June 9th, 2020
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 …
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