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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
Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
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
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
Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
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
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