Show notes for Episode 45
Here are the show notes for Episode 45, in which we talk to Dr Alex Baratta, Senior Lecturer in Language, Linguistics & Communication, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester about:
Accents, accents… and more accents!
Teacher accents and ‘professionalism’
Social connotations and stereotypes of accents - good and bad
Why one accent isn’t ‘better’ than another and why exposure to accents might be the way to overcome accentism
In our regular Lang in the News segment we talk about how formal greetings and sign-offs might be becoming a thing of the past and why that’s the fault of… well, pretty much everyone that Daily Mail readers don’t like. We also have a quick chat about the European-wide attempts to make language more inclusive, the first round of WOTY2023 and we big up Rob Drummond’s book, You’re All Talk.
Alex Baratta’s University of Manchester page:
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/alex.baratta
Some of the articles, books and research we mentioned:
https://theconversation.com/teachers-with-northern-accents-are-being-told-to-posh-up-heres-why-88425
https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/clarifying-accent-standards-for-british-teachers
Yours Sincerely is dead…
The Guardian:
And in the Mail:
Attempts to promote inclusive language in European languages
What’s in a word? How less-gendered language is faring across Europe
#WOTY2023
AI named word of the year by Collins Dictionary - BBC News
Opinion piece about new words https://archive.ph/kv2UQ
Rob Drummond’s new book: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/you-re-all-talk-why-we-are-what-we-speak-rob-drummond/7512151?aid=4868&ean=9781914484285
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
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