Philip Seargeant - E7

Show notes for Episode 7

Here are the show notes for Episode 7 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about:

• ‘Irregardless’ and why this word causes prescriptivists such angst.
  
• The Daily Mail going overboard on ‘man overboard’ and why challenging sexist language gets such a bad press.
  

And we talk to Dr Philip Seargeant of the Open University about emoji and political storytelling.

Philip Seargeant’s university page: http://www.open.ac.uk/people/ps4549

Philip Seargeant’s website: Philip Seargeant

Twitter: https://twitter.com/philipseargeant

Philip Seargeant on emoji: https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/emoji-digital-language-of-emotion-phillip-seargeant/

Philip Seargeant on political storytelling: https://www.ft.com/content/d0d0f4ec-a4d2-11ea-92e2-cbd9b7e28ee6 (paywalled)

The Special Adviser's Tale, or Political Storytelling in the Time of Covid

Irregardless

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/06/is-irregardless-a-real-word-dictionary

Peter Sokolowski of Merriam Webster Dictionaries discusses ‘irregardless’ in a Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/PeterSokolowski/status/1280585356908388352

‘Man overboard’

Sailors told to stop using Navy terms like 'unmanned' and 'man power'

Royal Navy bans terms 'unmanned' and 'manpower' because it's 'sexist'

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Contributors

Matthew Butler

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Lisa Casey

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Dan Clayton

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Jacky Glancey

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Music: Freenotes