It's the new episode and it features our annual preview of the @yorktoolkit.bsky.social day in July at University of York. Devyani Sharma and Sam Hellmuth tell us more about what's happening, including some great new work on MLE and an old case study revisited. open.spotify.com/episode/5Flf...

New episode on this year's @yorktoolkit.bsky.social is in the can and coming soon! It will feature a lot on the Generations of London English project, including updated work on MLE. Coming soon.

This looks like a really great event that examines how language bias and social attitudes affect women in football. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-pen...

Gender Penalty: language, gender & bias in football

Join us for an evening exploring how langauge, bias and everyday attitudes continue to sideline female voices in the game.

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And here's our third episode of the week. It's an interview with Chris Montgomery at University of Sheffield about his new project with @moderntoss.bsky.social on regional swearing. #linguistics #swearing spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/yHSpUK3lW2b

New episode is out: an interview with Dr Rob Topinka about digital rhetoric, the power of persuasion online & why language and politics are so intertwined. It's a good one if you're thinking of language investigations on political language. #linguistics spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/fTKWDtxIU2b

New episode up! It's an interview with Dr Daria Bahtina at UCLA about 'Gen Z slang' (and whether it even exists) and lots lots more. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/1u61kLmwR2b #linguistics

New epsiode up tomorrow. It's an interview with Dr Daria Bahtina along with a Lang in the News segment. They're both about 'Gen Z slang', if there is such a thing anyway, and the nature of fast-changing lexical trends.

It's been a busy time for recording and we've got a new interview to do this morning. Watch out for episodes coming soon with Daria Bahtina on 'Gen Z slang', Rob Topinka on digital rhetoric & extremist language, and Chris Montgomery on regional swearing!

New episode coming soon - an interview with Daria Bahtina about generational slang, online language and identity.

We've got a brand new episode out today: an interview with Dr Sarah Hopkyns from University of St Andrews on English in the Gulf. It's another episode that's been led by student interest, this time it's Oli, an A Level student at the Dubai British School. spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/3Sb65KDdv1b

We've just recorded a new episode and it's a second one that's been driven by student interest, this time by Oli, an A Level student in Dubai. We'll be talking to Sarah Hopkyns of St Andrews and UCL about English (and Arabic) in the Gulf, multilingualism, translanguaging & much more. Coming soon!

Episode 82 is up. It features an interview with Dr Rianna Walcott of University of Maryland and BCaT Lab about her PhD thesis on Black Twitter, plus discussion of identity online and off, Black feminist theory and its influence and lots more... spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/8jHX15k0k1b

Episode 82 is coming soon and it's an interview with Rianna Walcott of BCAT www.bcatlab.org about Black Twitter, language, community & identity online and lots more.

Black Communication & Technology Lab

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In case anyone missed them before the half-term break, here's a couple of blogs I wrote for @engmediacentre.bsky.social about curriculum change for secondary English. This one is about language in general in KS3&4: www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/the-fut...

The Future of English Language at KS3 + KS4

What the Curriculum and Assessment review could mean for English Language

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Here we go! Episode 81 is now up and it's one where we hand over the interviewing to two A Level English Language students, Freya and Miles. They interview @jessaiston.bsky.social about the language of and around neurodiversity. open.spotify.com/episode/6XCX...

We've got a new episode coming very soon and it's a really special one that has been kicked off and then carried out by two A level Eng Lang students. It's all about the language of & about neurodiversity, especially autism, and it features an interview with @jessaiston.bsky.social Coming soon!

It seems like a good day to gather front pages and apply some critical discourse analysis. Agency springs to mind...

I listened to this episode of the @lexispodcast.bsky.social this AM & it was fascinating. @charlotteent.bsky.social discusses how language analysis can be used within psychology, exploring the kinds of linguistic patterns linked to different personality traits. 🔗 tinyurl.com/bddtkaen #langsky

We talk about voice pitch and how it's perceived in different situations with Dr Matthew Hunt in the latest episode of Lexis which is out now: open.spotify.com/episode/7qTb... #linguistics

New episode just up. open.spotify.com/episode/4tmW...

New pods on the way soon on Black Twitter and language & personality disorders!

Merry Christmas to all our followers & listeners who celebrate it or just use the holiday to have a good time. We'll be back in the new year with some new episodes including some student takeovers where we'll hand the mics over to A-level students to do the talking & interviewing.

And the BL Word of the Week of the Year, as voted by listeners: temu (derog.): a cheap or knock-off version We think it reflects a complicated relationship with companies we do business with. Even as we use them, we feel the shadiness. See or hear this episode becauselanguage.com/131-wotwoty-...

Nice overview of recent WOTYs and the worlds & times they reflect. Decent style model for P2Q4 as well! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Each year, word of the year gets darker. ‘Six-seven’ may be annoying – but it’s bucked that trend | Coco Khan

Some might regard this slang as ‘brain rot’, but the first word of the year just for tweens and teenagers could be the most hopeful development of 2025, says writer and podcaster Coco Khan

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Seems sensible.

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 8mo ago

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

New episode just out! It features an interview with John Kelly aka @mashedradish.bsky.social on #WOTY2025 and the whole Word of the Year phenomenon. Word nerd heaven or cynical marketing ploy from BiG dIcTiOnArY? spotifycreators-web.app.link/e/pnwYbTXR3Yb

Rage Bait?! That's *two* words!!! share.descript.com/view/Yzj5Lej...

One word or two? - Descript

a word is a unit of meaning and a unit of meaning, which is sensible. doesn't have to quite literally be one discreet unit of characters. So I think because of writing and formal writing standards, w

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We'll be talking about this iconic moment in the death of a slang term in our next episode. bsky.app/profile/hoov...

Quick peek at our next episode and what we're talking about with @mashedradish.bsky.social share.descript.com/view/XQ5aTYF...

Preview Lexis John Kelly WOTY2025 - Descript

Uh, but what's really interesting to me is just the shift, as I was talking about before, from the kind of techno optimism of the early earlier parts of the century and now where it is very critical.

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New episode out now. #Linguistics #LangSky open.spotify.com/episode/6eVH...