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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 about us
The benefits and problems of technology in forensic linguistics
The role of the forensic linguist in an unequal society
The future of forensic linguistics
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
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/goblin-mode-meaning-word-of-the-year-oxford-dictionary-b2239839.html
‘Goblin mode’: new Oxford word of the year speaks to the times | Language | The Guardian
Slobbing out and giving up: why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’? | Life and style | 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
» Words of the Year American Dialect Society
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