Show notes for Episode 16

Welcome to Episode 16 of the Lexis podcast and our first new episode of 2021, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:

The language of news reports on violence against women

The power of language to represent and frame events

And we talk to Ffion Brown about her work on the representation of mental health.

Some of Ffion’s reading suggestions:

Methods of Critical Discourse Studies - Ruth Wodak (Editor) Michael Meyer (Editor)

https://uk.bookshop.org/books/methods-of-critical-discourse-studies/9781446282410

The Little Prince

https://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-little-prince-colour-illustrations/9781909621558

Language in the News

https://twitter.com/_chris_hart/status/1370868282216026113?s=20

‘Elite police officer appears in court charged with woman’s murder’ - Times headline

https://twitter.com/JNRaeside/status/1370774580948824065?s=20

Reporting on the Atlanta Spa Shootings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/17/jay-baker-bad-day/

“He was pretty much fed up and kind of at the end of his rope. Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jay Baker said Wednesday. He was describing the 21-year-old man accused of killing eight people, mostly Asian and almost all women, in a rampage across three Atlanta-area spas.

UK headlines about an attack on a teenage girl in Derby

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1370799588160983042?s=20

Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women - it’s a men’s issue

https://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_issue/transcript

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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