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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 patterns in spoken English.
🔺Warning: this episode contains explicit language!🔻
Robbie Love’s website: https://robbielove.org/
Robbie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lovermob
A link to the paper in Text and Talk:
Love, R. (2021). Swearing in informal spoken English: 1990s – 2010s. Text and Talk, 41, Special Issue: ‘Corpus Linguistics across the Generations: In Memory of Geoffrey Leech’.
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/text-2020-0051/html
Some of the media coverage for Robbie’s recent research is covered in the ‘Media’ page of Robbie’s site: https://robbielove.org/media/
Some great resources here for A level teachers and students!
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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
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey
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