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Jenny Lewin-Jones

@jennylewinjones.bsky.social

Sociology university teacher with a love of language(s) University of Worcester, UK

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Jenny Lewin-Jones@jennylewinjones.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you to @amyrobson.bsky.social for this research paper. Well worth a slow read! It stretched my brain and understanding, which is always good! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Straight time in the (post)apocalypse: Imagining climate futures through speculative method - Amy Robson, 2026

Whether the future offers the arrival of environmental catastrophe or the worsening of an already existing climate crisis, articulations of (post)apocalyptic en...

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Jenny Lewin-Jones@jennylewinjones.bsky.social · 3w ago

Words first recorded in print in a particular year. Note: "Many words were in spoken use for decades or even longer before they passed into the written language. The date is for the earliest written or printed use that the editors have been able to discover" www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster

When was a word first used in print? You may be surprised! Choose a year, and we'll show you the words that come from that date.

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Frances Ryan@francesryan.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s a relief to see Burnham - with help from Ed Davey and the Lib Dems - mentioning social care fees paid by disabled people. Politicians and media focus on the elderly with assets but any review must also address the poverty-inducing fees forced on working age disabled people by local councils.

Burnham says he agreed with what Ed Davey said in his Today interview this morning about the pressures carers are under. We see people struggling in in their homes looking after a partner or a relative. It can break people if they’re kind of left without that support that they need. In fact, it does break people, and that needs to be recognised. It needs to be recognised that people can see everything they’ve worked for wiped out by the costs of care. Hundreds of thousands of pounds can just disappear paying for care. Adults with disabilities will say that they face very unfair care charges just to live, just to live their life. That needs to be recognised.
Jenny Lewin-Jones@jennylewinjones.bsky.social · 3w ago

'Hard hats' will feature in a speech by the UK Prime Minister today about changes to education and training. Linguistically, it's an example of synecdoche, with 'hard hat' standing for the whole person, but also conveying multiple sociological ideas www.etymonline.com/word/synecdo...

Synecdoche - Etymology, Origin & Meaning

"figure of speech in which a part is taken for the whole of a thing or vice versa," late… See origin and meaning of synecdoche.

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Jenny Lewin-Jones@jennylewinjones.bsky.social · 4w ago

New words are needed as social realities change: Japan has a new word for days with temperatures over 40C. "Japan has experienced its first "kokushobi", or "cruelly hot day", as temperatures in parts of the country climbed past 40C (104F)" #EnvironmentalSociology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Japan temperatures soar over 40C, marking first 'cruelly hot day'

The term was introduced in April by the weather agency to describe days when temperatures reach 40C.

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Dr Laura Smith-Khan@lawandlanguage.org · last yr.

An interesting analysis of gender and dialogue in movies, incl. a Disney subset. Gender is just one characteristic that comes into play on our screens. In a recent @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast ep, @brynnquick.bsky.social and I discussed accents and how they can shape how we see the world

Whiteness, Accents, and Children’s Media

In this episode of the Language on the Move podcast, Brynn Quick speaks with Dr. Laura Smith-Khan about language and accents in children’s media, from Octonauts to Disney to Bluey, and they investi…

languageonthemove.com

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · last yr.

Male characters dominate the scripts of most popular Disney movies.

Barbara Bleiman@barbarableiman.bsky.social · last yr.

Did you know this about English & Media Centre? It's not a commercial organisation - it's an educational charity, with a tiny staff, offering as much as it can for free, doing loads of advocacy for the subject & offering a very wide range of support for teachers!

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Jenny Lewin-Jones@jennylewinjones.bsky.social · last yr.

Interesting insights by John Gledhill about the language of peace-making : "If the words we use not only reflect our understanding of issues but also shape understandings, then replacing discussion of peace “agreements” with talk of peace “deals” matters a lot" theconversation.com/language-of-...

Language of peace: why talk of ‘making deals’ rather than ‘reaching agreements’ is not helpful

The language of peacemaking is critical to the success of a settlement.

theconversation.com

Jenny Lewin-Jones@jennylewinjones.bsky.social · last yr.

Great piece by @francesryan.bsky.social. Her new book is already on order for our uni library and my #Sociology students are looking forward to reading it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women

Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs t...

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