Show notes
Show notes for Episode 16Welcome to Episode 16 of the Lexis podcast and our first new episode of 2021, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:The language of news reports on violence against womenThe power of language to represent and frame eventsAnd we talk to Ffion Brown about her work on the representation of mental health.Some of Ffion’s reading suggestions:Methods of Critical Discourse Studies - Ruth Wodak (Editor) Michael Meyer (Editor)https://uk.bookshop.org/books/methods-of-critical-discourse-studies/9781446282410 The Little Princehttps://uk.bookshop.org/books/the-little-prince-colour-illustrations/9781909621558 Language in the Newshttps://twitter.com/_chris_hart/status/1370868282216026113?s=20‘Elite police officer appears in court charged with woman’s murder’ - Times headline https://twitter.com/JNRaeside/status/1370774580948824065?s=20Reporting on the Atlanta Spa Shootingshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/17/jay-baker-bad-day/“He was pretty much fed up and kind of at the end of his rope. Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did,” Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Jay Baker said Wednesday. He was describing the 21-year-old man accused of killing eight people, mostly Asian and almost all women, in a rampage across three Atlanta-area spas.UK headlines about an attack on a teenage girl in Derbyhttps://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1370799588160983042?s=20Jackson Katz: Violence Against Women - it’s a men’s issuehttps://www.ted.com/talks/jackson_katz_violence_against_women_it_s_a_men_s_issue/transcript Contact us @LexisPodcast. Subscribe: Lexis Podcast | Podcast on SpotifyContributorsMatthew Butler Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerwyLisa Casey blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)Dan Clayton blog: EngLangBlog & Twitter: EngLangBlog (@EngLangBlog)Jacky Glancey Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlanceyMusic: Freenotes

