Here are the show notes for Episode 36, in which Dan and Lisa talk to Dr Claire Hardaker about:

Claire’s Lancaster University page: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/claire-hardaker

Claire’s en clair podcast: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/enclair/

Claire on Twitter: https://twitter.com/drclaireH

Claire on Mastodon: https://mastodonapp.uk/@drclaireh

And in our regular Lang in the News segment, Lisa and Dan talk about Words of the Year- which ones have been chosen so far, how they have been selected, why they work (or don’t?) and what they might tell us about 2022.

Collins: ‘Sums up 2022’: Permacrisis chosen as Collins word of the year | Culture | The Guardian

A year of ‘permacrisis’ - Collins Dictionary Language Blog

Oxford Dictionaries:

https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2022/#WOTY2022vote

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/goblin-mode-meaning-word-of-the-year-oxford-dictionary-b2239839.html

‘Goblin mode’: new Oxford word of the year speaks to the times | Language | The Guardian

Slobbing out and giving up: why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’? | Life and style | The Guardian

Cambridge Dictionary:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/editorial/woty

Merriam Webster: Word of the Year 2022 | Gaslighting | Merriam-Webster

Macquarie:

Teal named Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year – ‘an emblem of Australia’s political landscape’

Dictionary dot com:

Dictionary.com’s 2022 Word Of The Year Is…

Dictionary.com announces word of the year: ‘woman’ | US news | The Guardian

Dan’s Independent article about WOTY2022:

2022’s Words of the Year and what they tell us | The Independent

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