Lexis
Episodes
Episode 86 - Chris Montgomery & regional swearing
07 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 86⚠️🤬⚠️Contains swearing (obvs) and quite a lot of it…handled seriously and with academic rigour (🧐)⚠️🤬⚠...
Episode 85 - Rob Topinka & digital rhetoric
06 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 85⚠️⚠️⚠️We talk about some topics and forms of language - the language of incels and the manosphere, for example ...
Episode 84 - Daria Bahtina and 'Gen Z slang'
04 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 84 of Lexis in which we have both an interview and a Lang in the News segment. Amanda and Dan talk to Dr Daria Bahtina, Continuing ...
Episode 83 - Sarah Hopkyns and English in the Gulf
14 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 83 of Lexis, another student-led episode, which this time features Oli, an A Level student at the Dubai British School interviewing...
Episode 82 - Rianna Walcott & Black Twitter
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 82 of Lexis, in which Raj, Dan and (guest interviewer and friend of the pod) Amanda Cole talk to Dr Rianna Walcott, Assistant Profe...
Episode 81 - Jessica Aiston & Eltham Hill School students on the language of neurodiversity
01 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 81 of Lexis, a special student takeover edition which features Freya and Miles from Eltham Hill School in South London in conversat...
Episode 80 - Matthew Hunt on voice pitch
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 80 of Lexis in which Dan and guest interviewer Ben talk to Dr Matthew Hunt, Lecturer of Sociolinguistics, University of Southampton...
Episode 79 - Charlotte Entwistle on language & personality disorders
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
⚠️Content warning⚠️We discuss mental health, self-harm and suicide as part of this episode. Welcome to episode 79 of Lexis in which Raj &...
Episode 78 - John Kelly and the 2025 Words of the Year
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-We...
Episode 77 - Lynne Murphy and the 'Americanisation' of young people's English
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 rec...
Episode 76 - Dani Yin & Cheryl Wakslak on gender and exclamation marks in digital communication
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to episode 76 of Lexis which features Raj & Dan (and guest interviewer & friend of the pod, Amanda Cole) talking about gender and excl...
Episode 75 - Teachers' Accents special
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Lexis. This is episode 75 and it’s a bumper edition. We pick up on a recent survey of teachers by Teacher Tapp about teachers’ acc...
Episode 74 - Laura Smith-Khan and the language of law
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 74 of Lexis. Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Laura Smith-Khan, Senior Lecturer - School of Law, University of New England, Australia about...
Episode 73 - York English Language Toolkit preview 2025
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 73 of Lexis. Dan talks to Sam Hellmuth, Catherine Laing, Lauren Harrington and Salina Cuddy about the forthcoming York English Lang...
Episode 72 - Karrin Vasby Anderson on gender, politics and power
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 72 of Lexis. Raj and Dan talk to Professor Karrin Vasby Anderson, Department of Communication Studies, Colorado State University, U...
Episode 71 - Mercedes Durham & Welsh English
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 71 of Lexis. Lisa, Dan and guest presenter Amanda Cole talk to Professor Mercedes Durham, from the Centre for Language and Communic...
Episode 70 - Emma Humphries & prescriptivism
08 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 70 of Lexis. Raj and Dan talk to Dr Emma Humphries, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, School of Arts, English and Languages, Queen’...
Episode 69 - Natalie Braber & Alice Paver on accent stereotypes
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 69 of Lexis. Dan is joined by guest interviewer Amanda Cole for this episode as we talk to Dr Natalie Braber, Professor in linguist...
Episode 68 - Tony Thorne on the new words of 2024 & 2025
08 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 68Here are the show notes for Episode 68, in which Lisa, Jacky, Raj and Dan talk to lexicographer extraordinaire, connoisseur o...
Episode 67 - Joe McVeigh on how to spot a bad linguistics article
22 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 67 Here are the show notes for Episode 67, in which Jacky and Dan talk to Joe McVeigh, Senior Lecturer in Communication at the ...
Episode 66 - Andreea Calude & the language of social media
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 66, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Andreea Calude, author of The Linguistics of Social Media: an introduction (Ro...
Episode 65 - Jullietta Stoencheva on everyday extremism
23 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 65, in which Raj and Dan talk to Jullietta Stoencheva, PhD candidate in Media and Communication Studies at Malmo U...
Episode 64 - Katie Mansfield on working-class children & standard English in the classroom
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 64 Here are the show notes for Episode 64, in which Raj and Dan talk to Katie Mansfield, PhD Researcher at The University of Sh...
Episode 63 - Isobelle Clarke and anti-science discourses
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 63 Here are the show notes for Episode 63, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Isobelle Clarke, Lecturer in Security and Protection...
Episode 62 - Fiona McPherson and 20 Years of Oxford WOTY
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 62 Here are the show notes for Episode 62, in which Raj and Dan talk to Fiona McPherson, senior editor at the Oxford English Di...
Episode 61 - Lucy Jones on Words We Live By: A Guide to LGBTQ+ Language
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 61 Here are the show notes for Episode 61, in which Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Lucy Jones, Associate Professor in Sociolinguistic...
Episode 60 - Stylistics with Peter Stockwell and Jessica Norledge
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 60 Here are the show notes for Episode 60, in which Raj and Dan talk to Peter Stockwell, Professor of Literary Linguistics at t...
Episode 59 - York English Language Toolkit 2024
06 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 59 Here are the show notes for Episode 59, in which Dan talks to Sam Hellmuth, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Yo...
Episode 58 - Vaclav Brezina and the new Frequency Dictionary of British English
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 58 Here are the show notes for Episode 58, in which Dan talks to Professor of Corpus Linguistics, Dr Vaclav Brezina of Lancaste...
Episode 57 - Lang in the News and Johanna Gerwin on MLE
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 57 Here are the show notes for Episode 57, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk about some recent Lang in the News, including: A...
Episode 56 - Danielle Turton and dialect study
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 56, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Danielle Turton, Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at Lancaster University a...
Episode 55 - Christian Ilbury and online language
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 55, in which Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Christian Ilbury, Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language in the School...
Episode 54 - Florent Moncomble
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 54, in which Raj and Dan talk to Dr Florent Moncomble, Senior Lecturer in English Linguistics at University of Art...
Episode 53 - Language Awareness at School with Tim Marr & Steve Collins
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 53 Here are the show notes for Episode 53, an episode aimed primarily at teachers, in which Jacky and Dan talk to Steve Collins...
Episode 52 - Migration discourses with Charlotte Taylor & Ana Gavalas
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 52 Here are the show notes for Episode 52, a migration discourses bumper episode, in which we feature two interviews. First off...
Episode 51 - Emily M. Bender and 'AI' hype
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 51 Here are the show notes for Episode 51, in which Dan and (new Lexis team member) Raj talk to Professor Emily M. Bender of th...
Episode 50 - Jess Aiston and Critical Discourse Analysis
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 50 Here are the show notes for Episode 50, in which Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Jessica Aiston of QMUL about: Critical Discourse...
Episode 49 - Ife Thompson and Black British English
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 49 Here are the show notes for Episode 49, in which Jacky and Dan talk to lawyer, community activist and author, Ife Thompson, ...
Episode 48 - Frazer Heritage on representation of gender in videogames (and more)
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 48 Here are the show notes for Episode 48, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to Dr Frazer Heritage of Manchester Metropolitan U...
Episode 47 - Fiona McPherson of the OED and Words of the Year 2023
16 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 47 Here are the show notes for Episode 47, in which Dan talks to Fiona McPherson of the Oxford English Dictionary about: Word...
Episode 46 - Paul Kerswill & MLE
26 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 46 Here are the show notes for Episode 46, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to Paul Kerswill, Emeritus Professor, Department...
Episode 45 - Alex Baratta and accentism
11 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 45 Here are the show notes for Episode 45, in which we talk to Dr Alex Baratta, Senior Lecturer in Language, Linguistics & ...
Episode 44 - Kingsley Ugwuanyi + Amanda Cole
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 44 Here are the show notes for Episode 44, in which we talk to Dr Kingsley Ugwuanyi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Horizon Euro...
Episode 43 - language & gender special part 2
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 43 Here are the show notes for Episode 43, the second part of a Language & Gender double episode special, in which Lisa, Ja...
Episode 42 - Deborah Cameron, language & gender special part 1
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 42, the first part of a Language & Gender double episode special, in which we talk to Deborah Cameron, Profess...
Episode 41 - Johanna Gerwin and London English
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 41 Here are the show notes for Episode 41, in which Dan talks to Dr Johanna Gerwin, a sociolinguist at QMUL and DFG (German Res...
Episode 40 - York English Language Toolkit
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 40 Here are the show notes for Episode 40, a bumper edition in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to four linguists from the Univer...
Episode 39: Dan Collen on weaponized laughter memes & Heddwen Newton on Lang in the News
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 39 Here are the show notes for Episode 39, in which Lisa and Dan talk to Dan Collen, an online hate researcher from Canada abou...
Episode 38 - Anna Islentyeva and the representation of masculinity in advertising
23 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 38, in which Lisa and Dan talk to Dr Anna Islentyeva of Innsbruck University, Austria about the representation of ...
Episode 37 - Heidi Colthup and the language of gaming
25 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 37 Here are the show notes for Episode 37, in which Dan and Jill talk to Dr Heidi Colthup of the University of Kent about the l...
Episode 36 - Claire Hardaker and forensic linguistics
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 36, in which Dan and Lisa talk to Dr Claire Hardaker about: Forensic linguistics What language can reveal about...
Episode 35 - an opinion articles special with Harriet Williamson
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 35, an opinion articles special, in which Dan and Jacky talk to Harriet Williamson, the Voices Commissioning Edito...
Episode 34 - Arran Stibbe and ecolinguistics
26 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 34 Here are the show notes for Episode 34, in which Dan and Jill talk to Arran Stibbe, professor of Ecological Linguistics, and...
Episode 33 - Katy Brown and discourse analysis
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 33 Here are the show notes for Episode 33, in which Dan and Jill talk to Katy Brown from the Department of Politics, Language...
Episode 32 - Kate Barber and the language of misogyny in online communities
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 32 Here are the show notes for Episode 32, in which Lisa, Dan and Jill talk to Kate Barber from Cardiff University about: Fo...
Episode 31 - Danny Bate and the joys of etymology
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 31 Here are the show notes for Episode 31, in which Lisa, Dan and (*drumroll*) new Lexis team member, Jill Lavender (*end drumr...
Episode 30 - Jessica Norledge and the Language of Dystopia
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 30 Here are the show notes for Episode 30, in which Jacky, Dan and Lisa talk to Dr Jessica Norledge, Assistant Professor in Sty...
Episode 29 - JPB Gerald
17 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 29 Here are the show notes for Episode 29, in which Dan and Lisa talk to Dr JPB Gerald about the tensions around standard langu...
Episode 28 - Kendra Calhoun
25 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 28 Here are the show notes for Episode 28, in which Dan talks to Dr Kendra Calhoun, University of California President’s Post...
Episode 27 - MLE in the Media special
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 27 Here are the show notes for Episode 27, an MLE in the media special, in which we talk to Dr Matt Hunt Gardner from the Facu...
Episode 26 - Robert McKenzie and Speaking of Prejudice
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 26 Here are the show notes for Episode 26, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Robert McKenzie of Northumbria Univ...
Episode 25 - the OED
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 25, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Fiona McPherson and Freia Reimink-Layfield about their work on t...
Episode 24 - Kamran Khan
09 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 24 Here are the show notes for Episode 24, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Kamran Khan of the University of Co...
Episode 23 - Gareth Carrol
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 23 Here are the show notes for Episode 23, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Gareth Carrol of Birmingham Univer...
Episode 22 - Katie Edwards
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 22 Here are the show notes for Episode 22, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Katie Edwards about grammar pedant...
Episode 21 - Robbie Love
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 21 Here are the show notes for Episode 21, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Robbie Love about his work on corp...
Episode 20 - Sandra Jansen
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 20 Here are the show notes for Episode 20, a Language in the News special, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Dr Sa...
Episode 19 - Elena Semino
18 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 19 Here are the show notes for Episode 19 in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk to Professor Elena Semino of Lancaster Un...
Episode 18 - Emma Byrne
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
*Explicit warning* Show notes for Episode 18 Here are the show notes for Episode 18 - our first birthday episode! - where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and M...
Episode 17 - Dr Amanda Cole
28 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 17 Here are the show notes for Episode 17 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about: ‘Woke’... are we woke? Are we fi...
Episode 16 Ffion Brown
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 16 Welcome to Episode 16 of the Lexis podcast and our first new episode of 2021, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk ab...
Episode 15 - Dana Gablasova
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 15 Welcome to Episode 15 of the Lexis podcast, our last for the hellscape that has been 2020, in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and ...
Episode 14 - Emma Moore
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 14 Welcome to Episode 14 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about: How language frames and repre...
Episode 13 - Accent Special
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
SHOW NOTES (TRANSCRIPT AT BOTTOM) Show notes for Episode 13 Welcome to Episode 13 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk ab...
Episode 12 - Vanja Karanovic
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 12 Welcome to Episode 12 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about: Children’s language develop...
Episode 11 - Catherine Laing
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Episode 11 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about: Interruptions: in the US presidential debate, in online ...
E10 Language, sexuality and identity special
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 10 Welcome to Episode 10 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about: Another bad article about lan...
Episode 9 - Tony Thorne
03 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 9 Welcome to Episode 9 of the Lexis podcast in which Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about: Good and bad articles about lan...
Episode 8 - Northern accent special
21 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 8 Here are the show notes for Episode 8 which is a special edition on Northern accents where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew (2 p...
Philip Seargeant - E7
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Kelly Wright - E6
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ‘...
Ian Cushing - E5
11 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 5 Here are the show notes for Episode 5 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about language change and some of the argument...
Shivonne Gates - E4
04 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 4 where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about - sacking headlines: who’s been sacked and who’s doing the sac...
Devyani Sharma - E3
27 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Show notes for Episode 3 Here are the show notes for Episode 3, where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about - the language of subtitles: turning non...
Rob Drummond - E2
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here are the show notes for Episode 2, where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about - the language used to report political protests, demonstrations ...
Language in the News - E1
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lexis Podcast Show notes for episode 1 Here are the show notes for Episode 1, where Jacky, Dan, Lisa and Matthew talk about - trending hashtags in...