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Episode 52 - Migration discourses with Charlotte Taylor & Ana Gavalas


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Show notes for Episode 52

Here are the show notes for Episode 52, a migration discourses bumper episode, in which we feature two interviews. First off, Dan and Raj talk to Professor Charlotte Taylor of the University of Sussex about:

  • Why corpus linguistics can refresh the parts other approaches cannot reach

  • Discourses around migration and the metaphors that are often used - water, commodity and them/us

  • Why discourses around migration are usually about immigration 

  • Why nostalgia is such a powerful theme

  • Whether the discourses around migration are worse now than they have been in the past

  • Tools for students analysing language discourses

  • We also talk to Ana Gavalas of the Migrants’ Rights Network about:

    • The work of their organisation and why it matters

    • The ‘Words Matter’ campaign they have been running

    • Why migration is linked to wider struggles

    • Why challenging dangerous migration myths involves critically engaging with language.

    • Charlotte Taylor’s University of Sussex page: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p329327-charlotte-taylor

      Open access paper: Metaphors of Migration Over Time https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0957926521992156 

      Charlotte Taylor on Twitter: https://twitter.com/_ctaylor_ 

      Dan’s article on the language of migration: https://bylinetimes.com/2022/12/16/swamping-cockroaches-invasion-how-language-shapes-our-view-of-migration/ 

      The Migrants’ Rights Network: https://migrantsrights.org.uk 

      Words Matter campaign: https://migrantsrights.org.uk/projects/wordsmatter/ 

      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

      Raj Rana

      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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