Show notes for Episode 33
Here are the show notes for Episode 33, in which Dan and Jill talk to Katy Brown from the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at University of Bath about:
The mainstreaming of far-right discourses around migration & race
What we mean by ‘discourse’ and ‘discourses’ and the power of discourse
Analysing discourses, metaphors and narratives around social and political issues
Dog whistles and the reception of messages by audiences
Methodologies for analysing patterns and specificities in language data
Katy’s University of Bath page: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/katy-brown
Blog post on mainstreaming (with Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter): The far right, the mainstream, and mainstreaming - RACE.ED
⚠️⚠️⚠️Content warning: we discuss themes of racism, xenophobia and hate speech as part of this episode, so the discussion might not be suitable for all listeners⚠️⚠️⚠️
And in our regular Lang in the News segment, Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk about how language is used to represent migration, migrants and refugees. We reference two papers that analyse the language used to represent migration, one by Tamsin Parnell and one from Charlotte Taylor.
Charlotte Taylor 2021 paper on conceptual metaphors for migration: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957926521992156
Tamsin Parnell 2022 paper on representation of immigrant identities in Brexit-related government documents:
The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit A corpus-assisted analysis | Request PDF
Suella Braverman’s description of migration as an ‘invasion’.
Suella Braverman ‘putting lives at risk’ with ‘migrant invasion’ claims day after firebomb attack | The Independent
Suella Braverman sparks furious backlash after branding migrant crisis an 'invasion' - Mirror Online
David Shariatmadari on why the language matters: https://twitter.com/D_Shariatmadari/status/1587183760138715136
Older article by him: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/10/migration-debate-metaphors-swarms-floods-marauders-migrants
Counter-narratives: https://twitter.com/elliemaeohagan/status/1587151926482935808
Changing the Conversation on Asylum: A Messaging Guide | Freedom from Torture
CLASS report on countering divisive narratives: http://classonline.org.uk/pubs/item/the-divide-and-rule-playbook
CLASS on race and class:
http://classonline.org.uk/pubs/item/the-uk-race-class-narrative-report
Suella Braverman's talk of a refugee 'invasion' is a dangerous political gambit gone wrong
Suella Braverman was warned ‘hate speech’ could inspire far right
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