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Episode 57 - Lang in the News and Johanna Gerwin on MLE


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Show notes for Episode 57

Here are the show notes for Episode 57, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk about some recent Lang in the News, including:

  • Apostrophes and why their disappearance has signalled the end of civilisation

  • Johanna Gerwin’s new paper on how MLE and ‘Jafaican’ have been ‘enregistered’ in the UK press

  • Some articles about MLE

  • A really good student answer to a question on MLE (thanks, Abi 😁 )

  • And then straight after that, Raj and Dan talk to the actual Dr Johanna Gerwin about her paper and about the ways the media discourses around MLE have developed since it was dubbed ‘Jafaikan’ back in the day…

    The apostrophe stories

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321 

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/05/north-yorkshires-dropped-apostrophe-for-street-signs-upsets-residents 

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-39459831 

    Johanna Gerwin’s paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0271530924000314 

    Rebecca Mead’s New Yorker article on MLE: http://archive.today/AdcqJ 

    The Ed West Telegraph article: http://www.eckington.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/03/Jafaican-may-be-cool-but-it-sounds-ridiculous.pdf 

    Abi’s essay: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YKBmHSxWvQ1Uku44cYEqJxsc0j0B2eiH/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=110439791983693362630&rtpof=true&sd=true 

    Lots of articles about MLE gathered in one place: https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/2021/03/discourses-around-mle-and-youth-language.html 

    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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