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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:
Ecolinguistics - what it is and why we need it
The power of storytelling and the environment
Critical language awareness and its role in fighting back against climate catastrophe
Challenging ecologically damaging narratives, ‘greenwashing’, economic ‘growth’ metaphors and more…
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
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
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Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
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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
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:
Dialect levelling and why it’s a complicated...
Published 05/03/24
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:
Being an online linguist
Social media and language...
Published 04/30/24