Show notes for Episode 6

Here are the show notes for Episode 6 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:

language change related to the term ‘Karen’ and how its meaning has drifted and been debated

the changing of the name of Washington’s American Football team

And we talk to Kelly Wright in a wide-ranging interview about her work in experimental sociolinguistics, how race and ethnicity are represented in language, blackness and whiteness in voices and lots more...

Kelly Wright’s website: Covert Racism | Wright Linguistics

Publications and interviews: https://kellywright5.wixsite.com/raciolinguistics/recent-publications

John Rickford on Rachel Jeantel’s testimony at the George Zimmerman trial: Stanford linguist: prejudice toward African American dialect can result in unfair rulings

A link to a presentation on housing discrimination: https://youtu.be/2YiSTziPt5o

Kelly Wright on Twitter: https://twitter.com/raciolinguistic

Groundbreaking report reveals racial bias in English football commentary

The RunRepeat study: Racial Bias in Football Commentary (Study)

Karen

How 'Karen' went from a popular baby name to a stand-in for white entitlement

What is and where did it come from? This from the Indy: What is the Karen meme and is it a misogynistic slur? | indy100

Hadley freeman in the Guardian on Karen being sexist: The 'Karen' meme is everywhere – and it has become mired in sexism

Karen Attiah in the Washington Post about why it's not oppressive: Opinion | The ‘Karen’ memes and jokes aren’t sexist or racist. Let a Karen explain.

A bit of a more nuanced suggestion that it allows white women to uphold white supremacy: I am no longer Outside in a AMG on Twitter

Changing the Washington NFL team name

(We’ve chosen not to use the team name here but you’ll find it referred to in some of these articles.)

An NFL Name Change That Has Been a Long Time Coming

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53390944

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/07/18/renaming-the-washington-redskins

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Contributors

Matthew Butler

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Matthewbutlerwy

Lisa Casey

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

Dan Clayton

blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)

Jacky Glancey

Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

Music: Freenotes