Show notes for Episode 33

Here are the show notes for Episode 33, in which Dan and Jill talk to Katy Brown from the Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies at University of Bath about:

The mainstreaming of far-right discourses around migration & race

What we mean by ‘discourse’ and ‘discourses’ and the power of discourse

Analysing discourses, metaphors and narratives around social and political issues

Dog whistles and the reception of messages by audiences

Methodologies for analysing patterns and specificities in language data

Katy’s University of Bath page: https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/katy-brown

Blog post on mainstreaming (with Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter): The far right, the mainstream, and mainstreaming - RACE.ED

⚠️⚠️⚠️Content warning: we discuss themes of racism, xenophobia and hate speech as part of this episode, so the discussion might not be suitable for all listeners⚠️⚠️⚠️

And in our regular Lang in the News segment, Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk about how language is used to represent migration, migrants and refugees. We reference two papers that analyse the language used to represent migration, one by Tamsin Parnell and one from Charlotte Taylor.

Charlotte Taylor 2021 paper on conceptual metaphors for migration: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957926521992156

Tamsin Parnell 2022 paper on representation of immigrant identities in Brexit-related government documents:

The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit A corpus-assisted analysis | Request PDF

Suella Braverman’s description of migration as an ‘invasion’.

Suella Braverman ‘putting lives at risk’ with ‘migrant invasion’ claims day after firebomb attack | The Independent

Suella Braverman sparks furious backlash after branding migrant crisis an 'invasion' - Mirror Online

David Shariatmadari on why the language matters: https://twitter.com/D_Shariatmadari/status/1587183760138715136

Older article by him: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/10/migration-debate-metaphors-swarms-floods-marauders-migrants

Counter-narratives: https://twitter.com/elliemaeohagan/status/1587151926482935808

Changing the Conversation on Asylum: A Messaging Guide | Freedom from Torture

CLASS report on countering divisive narratives: http://classonline.org.uk/pubs/item/the-divide-and-rule-playbook

CLASS on race and class:

http://classonline.org.uk/pubs/item/the-uk-race-class-narrative-report

Suella Braverman's talk of a refugee 'invasion' is a dangerous political gambit gone wrong

Suella Braverman was warned ‘hate speech’ could inspire far right

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Matthew Butler

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Lisa Casey

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Dan Clayton

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Jacky Glancey

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Jill Lavender

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Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys

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