Language & Power Podcast
Language is crucial to understanding societies. It’s crucial to recognising the ecological, social, political, and economic conditions in which we live. We use language to frame problems, formulate solutions, negotiate, and communicate p...
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S2 Episode 4: The Gray Report Update (Partygate Part 2)
In the fourth episode of series 2, Tom and Michael discuss Sue Gray’s (UK senior civil servant) update to her investigation in ‘partygate’- the allegations that senior members of the UK government ...
S2 Episode 3: The Glasgow Climate Pact
In the third episode of series 2, Tom and Michael look back at the Glasgow Climate Pact. What kind of document is it, what is its purpose? We discuss some of the limitations of the pact.The Times: ...
S2 Episode 2: Partygate in the UK
In the second episode of series 2, Tom and Michael examine some of the semantics of the UK political scandal ‘partygate’. Powerful people at the centre of the Westminster government are accused of ...
S2 Episode 1: Racism in reporting on Ukraine
In the first episode of series 2, Tom and Michael examine some of the reporting on the invasion of Ukraine. We use ideas about conversational implicature in our discussion of the racist discourse a...
Episode 10 - ‘It’s vital that we protect this package’, or ‘blah, blah, blah’?
In the final episode of the series we discuss some of the language of the ‘Glasgow climate pact’ and a range of responses to it.Glasgow Climate PactMichael Mann tweetBBC - COP26: Climate deal sound...
Episode 9 - What could 2050 look like?
What could 2050 look like? In today’s episode we are joined by Catherine Happer, of the University of Glasgow, to discuss social media communication on the climate crisis. We look in detail at a Ti...
Episode 8 - Anxiety, Anger and Care
How are emotional responses to climate change represented, especially those of young people, an to what effect? For today’s episode we are joined by Kate Smith, of the University of Hull, to discus...
Episode 7 - Social Media and Cop 26
What part does social media have to play in the politics of COP 26? For today’s episode we are joined by Johnny Unger, of Lancaster University, to talk about critical social media and the ‘official...
Episode 6 - Reporting Protest
How is protest at COP 26 reported? We look at how the weekend demonstrations at COP 26 in Glasgow were reported in two very different news outlets: Democracy Now and The Daily Mail. Democracy Now:...
Episode 5 - Celebrity Interventions
What part do celebrity interventions have in the public debate on climate crisis around COP 26? In this episode we focus on comments by a consortium of sports stars, including Andy Murray and Tom D...
Episode 4 - The Attack of the Activist?
In the final episode of the week we look at the speech given by Txai Suruí - an activist from the Amazon - and a response to it from Jair Bolsonaro. We talk about myth, intertextuality and the powe...
Episode 3 - Truth to Power: Ms Mia Mottley
We look back at the inspiring speech given at the opening plenary of COP 26 by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Ms. Mia Mottley. Tom discusses the speech in terms of appraisal theory and Michael con...
Episode 2 - After the Leaders Event
Tom and Michael discuss speeches given by the UK's Boris Johnson and Antigua & Barbuda's Gaston Brown. We see how they use personal pronouns to present very different 'leader' personas and how ...
Episode 1 - Johnson at the G20
In this episode, we discuss the language of Boris Johnson's pre-COP 26 speech at the G20 in Rome. What are the purposes of the speech? What are the effects of vague language? Are the claimed commit...