Show notes for Episode 15

Welcome to Episode 15 of the Lexis podcast, our last for the hellscape that has been 2020, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:

Words of the Year

Words entering the dictionary

Words leaving the dictionary

And we talk to Dr Dana Gablasova from Lancaster University about Corpus Linguistics:

what it involves

what it can offer to students investigating language

the ways it can open up questions to explore in data

some important recent studies

the Corpus in Schools project

Dana Gablasova’s Lancaster University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/dana-gablasova

Dana’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/danagablas

The Corpus for Schools homepage: Corpus in classrooms | Corpus for Schools

Future Learn’s Corpus Linguistics MOOC: Corpus Linguistics Analysis - Online Course

The BNC: [bnc] British National Corpus

The BNC 2014: British National Corpus 2014

Baker, Gabrielatos, McEnery, Sketching Muslims: (PDF) Sketching Muslims: A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word 'Muslim' in the British Press 1998-2009

Semino, Demjen, Hardie, Payne: Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: (PDF) Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-Based Study

Elena Semino on Covid metaphors: 'A fire raging': Why fire metaphors work well for Covid-19 - Making Science Public

Reframe Covid: #ReframeCovid - Contribute

Louise Mullany and Loretta Trickett: A comic strip to fight misogyny hate crime

Paul Baker on corpus methods to explore the representation of gay men in the UK press: Language, Sexuality and Corpus Linguistics: Concerns and Future Directions Paul Baker Abstract In this paper I discuss the poten

Language in the News

Summary of selected WOTY choices

Oxford: too many to decide...

Collins: lockdown

Cambridge: quarantine

Australian Dictionary: iso

Macquarie: rona & doomscrolling

Merriam Webster (USA): pandemic

Oxford report: Oxford Word of the Year 2020 | Oxford Languages

The American Dialect Society has different categories and voted for a range of good ones, even if their main WOTY (covid) was a bit dull: American Dialect Society

Collins Dictionary WOTY: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/woty

Cambridge Dictionary: https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2020/11/24/cambridge-dictionarys-word-of-the-year-2020/

David Shariatmadari in The Guardian: Pandemic, lockdown and Megxit: the most influential words of 2020

Irish Times: The word of the year is defined as 'watching Normal People in your pyjamas'. What is it?

Merriam Webster on US WOTY: Word of the Year 2020 | Pandemic

Piece on Australian WOTY: https://theconversation.com/rona-iso-quazza-words-of-the-year-speak-to-our-australian-take-on-covid-150949

Macquarie’s Covid words of 2020: The Macquarie Dictionary COVID Word of the Year shortlist

Macquarie’s overall list (Karen, Covidiot and Doomscrolling): https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/view/word/of/the/year/2020

UK education top ten words of 2020: Word of the year 2020: the teachers' choice

Essex Girl removed from dictionary

https://news.sky.com/story/essex-girl-removed-from-dictionary-after-campaigners-claim-term-is-offensive-12151727

'Essex girl' removed from dictionary following campaign

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Contributors

Matthew Butler

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy

Lisa Casey

blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

Dan Clayton

blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)

Jacky Glancey

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Music: Freenotes

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CI3kZ7rZq5C70AyM2D-XVm3vF_DUno3vuSkIWrNNoa4/edit?usp=sharing

Here’s to a better 2021...