In the final episode of the week we look at the speech given by Txai Suruí - an activist from the Amazon - and a response to it from Jair Bolsonaro. We talk about myth, intertextuality and the power of discourse. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP5Nbc5P0GM">YouTube video of Txai Suruí's speech</a>Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LangPowerPod

In the final episode of the week we look at the speech given by Txai Suruí - an activist from the Amazon - and a response to it from Jair Bolsonaro. We talk about myth, intertextuality and the power of discourse. YouTube video of Txai Suruí's speechFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LangPowerPod

In the final episode of the week we look at the speech given by Txai Suruí - an activist from the Amazon - and a response to it from Jair Bolsonaro. We talk about myth, intertextuality and the power of discourse. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP5Nbc5P0GM" rel="noopener noreferrer">YouTube video of Txai Suruí's speech</a>Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LangPowerPod

Episode 4 - The Attack of the Activist?

Language is crucial to understanding societies. It’s crucial to recognising the ecological, social, political, and economic conditions in which we live. We use language to frame problems, formulate solutions, negotiate, and communicate political and economic pitfalls. 
Language is interaction that can accelerate action. But language is also performance, and performances can be used to distract from inaction, to avoid action, or postpone it, as much as to accelerate it.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;
And language is what we focus on in this second series of the language and power podcast.&nbsp;

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Language is crucial to understanding societies. It’s crucial to recognising the ecological, social, political, and economic conditions in which we live. We use language to frame problems, formulate solutions, negotiate, and communicate political and economic pitfalls. Language is interaction that can accelerate action. But language is also performance, and performances can be used to distract from inaction, to avoid action, or postpone it, as much as to accelerate it.         And language is what we focus on in this second series of the language and power podcast. 

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