Lexis Episode 63 - Isobelle Clarke and anti-science discourses
Show notes for Episode 63
Here are the show notes for Episode 63, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Isobelle Clarke, Lecturer in Security and Protection Science in the Dept of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University about:
Anti-science discourses
The language of climate change denialism
The attraction and appeal of anti-science narratives
Methodologies for analysing discourses: including why linguists still need to interpret patterns
Exploring discourses around Islam and Muslims in the UK press
Dealing with difficult data and problematic topics
Isobelle Clarke’s Lancaster University page: https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/isobelle-clarke(447fc73a-d7fa-4f7b-922e-604f12549485).html
Media Bias Fact Check: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
LancsBox: https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk/
The Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/
Peter Hotez: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hotez
Kate Fox, Watching the English: https://dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/books/watching-the-english/
The Routledge Handbook of Discourse and Disinformation
Lexis is on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social
Contributors
Lisa Casey
blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)
Dan Clayton
blog: 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