Lexis Podcast

Black Communication & Technology Lab

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.

The Future of English Language at KS3 + KS4 What the Curriculum and Assessment review could mean for English Language

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...

Episode 81 - Jessica Aiston & Eltham Hill students on the language of neurodiversity Show notes for Episode 81 Welcome to episode 81 of Lexis, a special student takeover edition which features Freya and Miles from Eltham Hill School in South London in conversation with Dr Jessica Ais...

The show notes, including links to several papers that Jess mentions are here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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.

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Episode 80 - Matthew Hunt on voice pitch Show notes for Episode 80 Welcome to episode 80 of Lexis in which Dan and guest interviewer Ben talk to Dr Matthew Hunt, Lecturer of Sociolinguistics, University of Southampton about voice pitch, inc...

Show notes are here and will be updated when the second paper we talk about (on female football commentators) is published:
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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

Episode 79 - Charlotte Entwistle on language & personality disorders Show notes for Episode 79 Welcome to episode 79 of Lexis in which Raj & Dan talk to Dr Charlotte Entwistle, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in Psychology, University of Liverpool. We discuss:...

We talk to Dr Charlotte Entwistle about language and psychology and her work on analysing the language associated with personality disorders. Show notes are here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New episode just up.
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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.

Screenshot of Daniel, Ben, and Hedvig, with the winning word: temu (derogatory): a cheap or knock -off version

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
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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

Nice overview of recent WOTYs and the worlds & times they reflect. Decent style model for P2Q4 as well!
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Seems sensible.

Episode 78 - John Kelly and 2025's Words of the Year Show notes for Episode 78 Welcome to episode 78 of Lexis in which Raj & Dan talk to John Kelly, former head of content at Dictionary.com, previous contributor to Merriam-Webster and Oxford Dictionari...

We talk about WOTYs past, present (and future yet to come), including 'rage bait', 'parasocial', 'AI slop', 'clanker', 'Kavanaugh stop', 'enshittification', 'podcast', 'selfie', 'fascism'... oh and '6-7'. Show notes are here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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

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

Rage Bait?! That's *two* words!!!

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

Quick peek at our next episode and what we're talking about with @mashedradish.bsky.social
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Episode 77 - Lynne Murphy and the 'Americanisation' of young people's English Show notes for Episode 77 Welcome to episode 77 of Lexis in which Raj & Dan talk to Lynne Murphy, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex about a flurry of recent news stories about chil...

We talk to @lynneguist.bsky.social about the supposed 'Americanisation' of young British people's vocabulary, media scares and why we should approach news stories like these with some criticality. Show notes and links are here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New episode out now. #Linguistics #LangSky
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Lynne Murphy interview clip - Descript In Britain, people tend to assume it's an Americanism if it's something new that they don't like. So when you read those articles in The Telegraph for The Times, or other newspapers with lists of, yo

A little preview of what our next episode, with @lynneguist.bsky.social, will be covering.

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We've just recorded a new episode with @lynneguist.bsky.social on the recent flurry of articles about young people and the supposed Americanisation of their language. And how we've been here before. Coming soon!

Episode 76 - Dani Yin & Cheryl Wakslak on gender & exclamation marks Show notes for Episode 76 Welcome to episode 76 of Lexis which features Raj & Dan (and guest interviewer & friend of the pod, Amanda Cole) talking about gender and exclamation marks in digital commun...

We also have a Lang in the News segment on some more inclusive language stories. Oh joy! The show notes are here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We've got a new episode out! It features an interview with Dani Yin and Cheryl Wakslak about their recent paper on gendered use of exclamation marks in digital communication and it's a really good conversation: open.spotify.com/episode/5KzP...
#linguistics

This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast.
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:

Researching Language and Digital Communication Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Christian Ilbury about his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide, published by Routledge. The book is an introduction to research on l…

@christianilbury.bsky.social is another recent addition to the Starter Pack, and joined @brynnquick.bsky.social for an interview earlier this year to discuss his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide. A great discussion!
www.languageonthemove.com/researching-...