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

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Discourse-and-Disinformation/Maci-Demata-McGlashan-Seargeant/p/book/9781032124254 

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