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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
Metaphors for Covid, health campaigns and vaccinations
Elena Semino’s Lancaster University webpage: Professor Elena Semino
Elena on Twitter: Elena Semino (@elenasemino)
Reframe Covid pages: #ReframeCovid
Questioning Vaccine Discourse project: Quo VaDis: Questioning Vaccine Discourse Project (@vaccine_project)
We’ll be back with a Language in the News special for episode 20 later this summer.
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Contributors
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)
Jacky Glancey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
Music: Freenotes
Show notes for Episode 57
Here are the show notes for Episode 57, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk about some recent Lang in the News, including:
Apostrophes and why their disappearance has signalled the end of civilisation
Johanna Gerwin’s new paper on how MLE and ‘Jafaican’ have been...
Published 05/23/24
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