Show notes for Episode 15
Welcome to Episode 15 of the Lexis podcast, our last for the hellscape that has been 2020, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
Words of the Year
Words entering the dictionary
Words leaving the dictionary
And we talk to Dr Dana Gablasova from Lancaster University about Corpus Linguistics:
what it involves
what it can offer to students investigating language
the ways it can open up questions to explore in data
some important recent studies
the Corpus in Schools project
Dana Gablasova’s Lancaster University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/dana-gablasova
Dana’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/danagablas
The Corpus for Schools homepage: Corpus in classrooms | Corpus for Schools
Future Learn’s Corpus Linguistics MOOC: Corpus Linguistics Analysis - Online Course
The BNC: [bnc] British National Corpus
The BNC 2014: British National Corpus 2014
Baker, Gabrielatos, McEnery, Sketching Muslims: (PDF) Sketching Muslims: A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word 'Muslim' in the British Press 1998-2009
Semino, Demjen, Hardie, Payne: Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: (PDF) Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-Based Study
Elena Semino on Covid metaphors: 'A fire raging': Why fire metaphors work well for Covid-19 - Making Science Public
Reframe Covid: #ReframeCovid - Contribute
Louise Mullany and Loretta Trickett: A comic strip to fight misogyny hate crime
Paul Baker on corpus methods to explore the representation of gay men in the UK press: Language, Sexuality and Corpus Linguistics: Concerns and Future Directions Paul Baker Abstract In this paper I discuss the poten
Language in the News
Summary of selected WOTY choices
Oxford: too many to decide...
Collins: lockdown
Cambridge: quarantine
Australian Dictionary: iso
Macquarie: rona & doomscrolling
Merriam Webster (USA): pandemic
Oxford report: Oxford Word of the Year 2020 | Oxford Languages
The American Dialect Society has different categories and voted for a range of good ones, even if their main WOTY (covid) was a bit dull: American Dialect Society
Collins Dictionary WOTY: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/woty
Cambridge Dictionary: https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2020/11/24/cambridge-dictionarys-word-of-the-year-2020/
David Shariatmadari in The Guardian: Pandemic, lockdown and Megxit: the most influential words of 2020
Irish Times: The word of the year is defined as 'watching Normal People in your pyjamas'. What is it?
Merriam Webster on US WOTY: Word of the Year 2020 | Pandemic
Piece on Australian WOTY: https://theconversation.com/rona-iso-quazza-words-of-the-year-speak-to-our-australian-take-on-covid-150949
Macquarie’s Covid words of 2020: The Macquarie Dictionary COVID Word of the Year shortlist
Macquarie’s overall list (Karen, Covidiot and Doomscrolling): https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/word/of/the/year/2020
UK education top ten words of 2020: Word of the year 2020: the teachers' choice
Essex Girl removed from dictionary
https://news.sky.com/story/essex-girl-removed-from-dictionary-after-campaigners-claim-term-is-offensive-12151727
'Essex girl' removed from dictionary following campaign
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Matthew Butler
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Lisa Casey
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Dan Clayton
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Jacky Glancey
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Music: Freenotes
Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CI3kZ7rZq5C70AyM2D-XVm3vF_DUno3vuSkIWrNNoa4/edit?usp=sharing
Here’s to a better 2021...