Lexis Episode 52 - Migration discourses with Charlotte Taylor & Ana Gavalas
Show notes for Episode 52
Here are the show notes for Episode 52, a migration discourses bumper episode, in which we feature two interviews. First off, Dan and Raj talk to Professor Charlotte Taylor of the University of Sussex about:
Why corpus linguistics can refresh the parts other approaches cannot reach
Discourses around migration and the metaphors that are often used - water, commodity and them/us
Why discourses around migration are usually about immigration
Why nostalgia is such a powerful theme
Whether the discourses around migration are worse now than they have been in the past
Tools for students analysing language discourses
We also talk to Ana Gavalas of the Migrants’ Rights Network about:
The work of their organisation and why it matters
The ‘Words Matter’ campaign they have been running
Why migration is linked to wider struggles
Why challenging dangerous migration myths involves critically engaging with language.
Charlotte Taylor’s University of Sussex page: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p329327-charlotte-taylor
Open access paper: Metaphors of Migration Over Time https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926521992156
Charlotte Taylor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ctaylor_
Dan’s article on the language of migration: https://bylinetimes.com/2022/12/16/swamping-cockroaches-invasion-how-language-shapes-our-view-of-migration/
The Migrants’ Rights Network: https://migrantsrights.org.uk
Words Matter campaign: https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/wordsmatter/
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
Raj Rana
Matthew Butler
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA
Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys
Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys