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