Show notes for Episode 16
Welcome to Episode 16 of the Lexis podcast and our first new episode of 2021, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:
The language of news reports on violence against women
The power of language to represent and frame events
And we talk to Ffion Brown about her work on the representation of mental health.
Some of Ffion’s reading suggestions:
Methods of Critical Discourse Studies - Ruth Wodak (Editor) Michael Meyer (Editor)
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/methods-of-critical-discourse-studies/9781446282410
The Little Prince
https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-little-prince-colour-illustrations/9781909621558
Language in the News
https://twitter.com/_chris_hart/status/1370868282216026113?s=20
‘Elite police officer appears in court charged with woman’s murder’ - Times headline
https://twitter.com/JNRaeside/status/1370774580948824065?s=20
Reporting on the Atlanta Spa Shootings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/17/jay-baker-bad-day/
“He was pretty much fed up and kind of at the end of his rope. Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jay Baker said Wednesday. He was describing the 21-year-old man accused of killing eight people, mostly Asian and almost all women, in a rampage across three Atlanta-area spas.
UK headlines about an attack on a teenage girl in Derby
https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1370799588160983042?s=20
Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women - it’s a men’s issue
https://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_issue/transcript
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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
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