Show notes for Episode 20

Here are the show notes for Episode 20, a Language in the News special, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Sandra Jansen of Paderborn University about linguistics stories in the media and discuss stories around accent bias, dialect change and suggestions for reading and evaluating stories about language in the media.

Sandra Jansen’s Paderborn University page: https://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/person/66815/

Sandra on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sj2915

Sandra says she can send the English Today article, Predicting the Future of English, that’s mentioned in the article if you want to contact her.

Alex Scott & Digby Jones

Original tweets here: https://twitter.com/Digbylj/status/1421164856527437825

Alex Scott’s response here: https://twitter.com/AlexScott/status/1421257347419213831

Digby Chicken Caesar doubles down here: https://twitter.com/Digbylj/status/1421448009238388737

Excellent thread from a linguist, Bethan Tovey-Walsh here: https://twitter.com/LinguaCelta/status/1421460631304146951

And another thread (from Claire Hardaker) here: https://twitter.com/DrClaireH/status/1421398857255116801

Longer read from Claire Hardaker: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/drclaireh/2021/08/02/digby-lord-jones-the-man-who-took-on-linguistics-and-lost/

Katie Edwards piece here:: https://katiebedwards.medium.com/putting-the-accent-on-prejudice-a2894d5d0670

Deborah Cameron on the Alex Scott/Digby Jones story and attacks on women’s speech: https://debuk.wordpress.com/2021/08/07/speakin-while-female/

Accentism thread of reader comments:

https://twitter.com/AccentismProj/status/1421899858391228419

Predicting Dialect change

Full paper here: Inferring the drivers of language change using spatial models

Summary here: Northern English verbal mannerisms being lost

News stories here:

Ee bah gone? How northern accents could be dead in 45 years

Northern accents could sound southern by 2066, study finds

Northern accents are dying out and could DISAPPEAR BY 2066

Northern accents could be wiped out in less than 50 years, scientist says

Opinion piece based on the story here

Thread from Tamsin Blaxter (Cambridge linguist behind the language side of the project) here: https://twitter.com/tweetolectology/status/1421126516012986370

‘The Sound of 2066’ project (paper on ResearchGate): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308793528_Watt_D_Gunn_B_2016_%27The_sound_of_2066_A_report_commissioned_by_HSBC%27_26th_September_2016

Some of the stories around it:

It's the end of the frog and toad for regional slang, says report

'Th' sound vanishing from English language with Cockney and other dialects set to 'die out by 2066'

How will Brits speak in 50 years? The Sound of 2066

Regional accents to end within 50 years according to new report

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Contributors

Matthew Butler

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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

Show notes for Episode 20 of @LexisPodcast are here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k4x7bnh8jgsz1EuDxrgLPy-6By8IGvLX_HMEgFt5IcY/edit?usp=sharing

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