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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:
What it is
How it developed
How it’s used now
How it’s been reported on (and why it’s not ‘Jafaican’)
The discourses and metaphors around it
What it might sound like in the future
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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