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Episode 50 - Jess Aiston and Critical Discourse Analysis


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Show notes for Episode 50

Here are the show notes for Episode 50, in which Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Jessica Aiston of QMUL about:

  • Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Discourse Studies 

  • Why CDA/CDS are such useful approaches for A Level English Language students 

  • Some of the most useful elements of the CDA toolkit and why they’re helpful

  • The work that Jess has done on the representation of women by men in the manosphere

  • Using critical discourse approaches with social media data

  • The ethics of using social media data

  • The work that Jess is currently doing on ‘autism in affinity spaces’

  • Jess’s QMUL page: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/language-centre/people/academic/profiles/aiston.html 

    Jess on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jessaiston.bsky.social 

    • Crompton's paper on the telephone game: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1362361320919286

    • Damian Milton on the double empathy problem:https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/professional-practice/double-empathy

    • Autism in Affinity Spaces project website: https://autisminaffinityspaces.org/

    • Information about the survey: https://autisminaffinityspaces.org/our-survey-is-now-live/ -

    • Contributors

      Lisa Casey 

      blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

      Dan Clayton 

      blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)

      Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

      Jacky Glancey 

      Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

      Matthew Butler 

      Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

      Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 

      Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys

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