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Mr Flood's Examples/Interests
Mr Flood's Examples/Interests
Links and Additional Reading
Links and Additional Reading
Avoiding the word Moist- https://www.goodfood.com.au/recipes/news/hate-the-word-moist-get-over-it--the-alternatives-are-worse-20210119-h1tgpn
The Djokovic Plan- https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/paging-dr-djokovic-public-health-guru-pens-prescription-for-lockdown-fever-20210118-p56uxe.html
Avoid these expressions- https://www.fastcompany.com/90456851/8-expressions-to-never-use-when-answering-a-question?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com
Why it's offensive to say 'All Lives Matter'- https://theconversation.com/why-is-it-so-offensive-to-say-all-lives-matter-153188
If you’re discussing attitudes towards language use/misuse, here’s a full-on Twitter thread that offers lots for you and your students to discuss:
https://twitter.com/egm974/status/1357237057358340096
Useful for discourse markers – um, like etc.
Article/video on keeping an Indigenous language alive – good for later this year:
Could be a good article for discussion about politeness and face needs.
Women and swearing
Taboo language
Just listened to this: https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/amanda-laugeson-swearing-history-bad-language/12889570
An interesting conversation around taboo language, identity, Australian English, attitudes towards language, etc. It touches on shift over time as well so could be a useful introduction or resource for a number of topics. Nothing too profane or vulgar either so suitable for a wide audience.
Promotes Amanda Laugeson’s book on the topic, which sounds interesting: https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/9781742236636/
Here’s a good quote from this article:
Pronouns are basically the please-and-thank-you of gender. We use them to doff our hats at each other, to acknowledge each other’s existence in a pleasant way. It’s no more difficult than saying “good day” on the street. Just as a friendly greeting from a stranger can make my morning brighter, hearing someone use the right pronoun can perk me up.
https://thehypothesis.substack.com/p/they-turned-my-gender-into-a-dictionary
This looks like a really useful site for accessing lots of different resources for teaching history of English, world Englishes, etc: https://sites.google.com/site/helontheweb/home
Lingua Franca
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/linguafranca/singlish/3051714#transcript
Jacqui Lambie's recent speech (a part of it) would also be really good for students to analyse for language/rhetorical features, cohesion and coherence, etc:
If you're on Twitter, there's 2 minutes of it on Lambie's Twitter feed with transcript as well: https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FJacquiLambie%2Fstatus%2F1313949072559013888&data=02%7C01%7CFiona.Ellis%40education.vic.gov.au%7C6c50d85799424ccc287c08d86bd9a3cf%7Cd96cb3371a8744cfb69b3cec334a4c1f%7C0%7C0%7C637377930597020907&sdata=Y7P5Cysrdqh92KJUoNKrk%2BkRjOgVbZcjtMAgSaLKQrI%3D&reserved=0
Here’s an update with two further COVID neologisms:
Ahmed Yussuf, ‘‘Subtle dance’ and ‘vertical consumption’: new terms in Australia’s COVID dictionary’, SBS: The Feed, https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/subtle-dance-and-vertical-consumption-new-terms-in-australia-s-covid-dictionary, 3 October 2020.
Here’s a good article for you and your students re euphemistic language: https://daily.jstor.org/the-ethical-life-of-euphemisms/
If you’re talking about jargon and semantics and context, this thread could be useful and interesting for your students (as well as all the current real life examples in the media!):
https://twitter.com/StopBusinessBS/status/1245977011379744768
Came across this ad released Wednesday. An interesting one to discuss in relation to AOS2 group identities- occupation, jargon, slang, social attitudes etc. etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs6bicDVuf4&pbjreload=101
I just came across this wonderful resource that has a lot of links that are very relevant for us in Unit 4: http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/publications-and-seminars/public-lectures/
Of particular interest is this year's public lecture on the evolution of English in Australia - covering a lot of the U4O2 material: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jLXGjrlrgQ&feature=youtu.be
Cartoons with language used to vilify or marginalise
https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/wrongs-and-rights
This article is mostly about behaviour patterns but offers a couple of great quotes about the use (or lack of use) of the full stop
In response to the 'gender specific language ban' article, there were some good articles and posts from the Unis themselves, clarifying their position. I remember using this one in class at the time: https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2018/06/not-quite-end-of-mankind
Hey,
I found this article while researching for current texts about gender.
I think it demonstrates an interesting perspective on the changing attitudes towards gendered language as well as the impact of education and how this will create language shift.
· 2020: Robbie Katter on binary gendered language: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/katter-loses-two-year-fight-to-protect-gendered-language-20200811-p55kng.html
· 'Instead Of Saying 'Hey, Guys!' At Work, Try These Gender-Neutral Alternatives' (Huffington Post, 03/08/2020): https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/gendered-language-hey-guys_l_5f21b189c5b6b8cd63b0f331
Grammar
The divisive nature of the Karen meme
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/08/karen-meme-coronavirus/615355/
Season 8, Episode 16
Ethnolects:
Timestamp: 7.34 (keep watching until you see Ash London code-switch TWO times)
Ash London codeswitched from Standard Australian English to the Lebanese-Australian ethnolect on television show ‘Have you been paying attention’
Neologisms
Time stamp: Approx. 33min
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/social-class-first-seven-words
We've discussed Vocal Fry as an interesting concept of Language and Gender - the public debate usually suggests it's a 'problem' of female speech, and the linguistic evidence says we all do it. Brings up the discussion of policing female language. Also consider the articles telling females to stop apologising so much. Male speech is often the default setting.
Overview
https://theconversation.com/if-your-teenagers-vocal-fry-bothers-you-you-may-be-behind-the-times-111721
You Asked: What is Vocal Fry?
http://time.com/5006345/what-is-vocal-fry/
The Vocal Habit That Women Are Being Criticized for at Work (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMtbWt0wRyM
Vocal fry: An attack on women? (CBS News)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAQsnAVoMw
Apologies
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-22/why-women-say-sorry-and-what-to-say-instead/11985026
Linguistic innovation
Oyster farmers change product origin name in nod to Black Lives Matter movement
We analysed Grimshaw’s response on page 3 that starts with “You don’t need to tell me that” – which you can also find the short clip of here:
https://twitter.com/ACurrentAffair9/status/1374996420101431299
Australian English and group identity
This weekend a First Nations show is being launched on Triple J. It’s called ‘Blak Out’ and will be on from 5-6pm on Sundays. The host Nooky, a Yuin hiphop artist, was on the afternoon show yesterday and listening to him talk I think the show might be a good resource for Australian English but also group identity, as he used a fair bit of slang more common in younger Aussies. And as it will feature Indigenous artists from the full spectrum of music genres it might end up being a great resource for Australian identity and Aboriginal English as well.
Double-speak and obfuscation
I find the name for Howard Springs - ‘The Centre for National Resilience’ useful when taking about obfuscation this year. But we’ve also weighed up how it could be seen as doublespeak because of the connotation of ‘resilience’.
An interesting article for identity. I love the phrase "We recognise that the future is genderful..."
The Story of Australia’s first dictionary
Identity
A great video of Deputy Prime Minister Michael Mccormack using language outside his age and occupational identity groups, in order to persuade.
twitter.com/insidersabc/status/1398791263646851073?s=12 from Insiders ABC’s Tweet
(reminds me of Scomo’s “hands in the air” tweet from a few years back)
Register inappropriateness
Sharing a bit of Barnaby Joyce (from last Thursday’s Q&A) when he referred to the Israel / Palestine conflict as ‘someone else’s turd in my toilet’ and said that Israel couldn’t ‘give a flying toss about what Australia thinks’. Joyce refers to his choice of phrase as deliberately profane so that it will have ‘resonance’. The offending sections are in the first 2 minutes.
Dictionary
Here’s a lovely article from the Australian Dictionary Centre (ANU) on the Vocabulary of Australian English by Bruce Moore. The image of Doctor Samuel Johnson leaping about using his coat as a kangaroo pouch is hard to go past
https://www.nma.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/8779/vocabulary-of-australian-english.pdf
https://twitter.com/egm974/status/1357237057358340096
Discussion about prescriptivism
Does the word ‘snag’ come from ‘snack’?
“The word probably comes from a British dialect word meaning ‘a small morsel; a light repast’ but it may also refer to the Standard English use of the word snack.”
source: Daily Telegraph, January 24th, 2016:
#notjustadaughter is trending on Twitter at the moment and a bunch of other hashtags regarding Aus Politics in response to Scomo’s presser. Found this one with phonological patterning
Mimicking spoken language in CMC
https://language-and-innovation.com/2017/11/21/bad-buzzwords/
The trajectory of buzzwords - linguistic change and innovation
Emoji use in the pandemic - linguistic change (informal)
Language innovation - vaccine
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57848226
Emoji stuff
Interesting from a prescriptivist viewpoint.
Coherence factor: Different formatting and focus on inference (shared prior understanding) now regarded as very important in how readers (bank customers) ‘engage with’ (read & comprehend) their legal texts, such as terms & conditions.
https://www.adnews.com.au/news/the-power-of-language-and-brand-buzzwords
Jargon
https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/scott-morrison-interview-kiis-fm-melbourne-jason-hawkins/
https://www.themonthly.com.au/today/rachel-withers/2021/21/2021/1626847145/hardest-word
And more on PM apologies
Obfuscatory language - ScoMo 'apologises' (fauxpologises?)
https://www.nma.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/8779/vocabulary-of-australian-english.pdf
Australian English
Evolving Australian Identity. Indigenous representation in mainstream society
Australian food icons and how they contribute to the Australian national identity
Language change in Australian society
Changing vales in Australian society
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/world/asia/does-an-asian-australian-accent-exist.html
Variation in Australian English. Ethnolects
Language change in Australian society - connotations
Aboriginal identity shown through Indigenous languages
Changing values in Australia - changing use of mate
https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/blog/?article_word_search=aussie+word+of+the+week
Examples of Australian English
Jargon use in a diverse Australian society
Mate - origins etc.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikeynicholson/the-one-set-down-under?ref=hpsplash
Australian cultural stereotypes
Australian English and stereotypes in Australian national identity
Issues with insensitivity to First Nations identity and culture
Need to keep analysis linguistic
"In a Facebook comment on the Bega District News story about the beer's release, Yuin community leader Warren Ngarrae Foster remarked: 'The book's one thing but naming GROG after one of our SACRED STORIES IN THE NIGHT SKY just goes to show [he's] in it for the money.
'SHAME ON YOU Bruce WTF.'"
Could link to ideas such as Acknowledgement of Country v. Welcome to Country and the idea that certain aspects of language and culture - particularly those of Indigenous and other minority groups - should not be appropriated by white Australia.
Importance, value, role of ethnolects
The comments are great for regional identities and variation
Change in in public language targeted at First Nations people
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-27/tokyo-olympics-live-blog-day-four-tuesday/100325306
The language of elite sports and national identity:
https://news.defence.gov.au/media/media-releases/air-force-transitions-airmen-aviators
non-gendered language and identity: "airmen" to "aviators" to "instil a stronger sense of identity"
https://www.abc.net.au/4corners/tiktok:-data-mining,-discrimination-and-dangerous/13470700
"TikTok: Data mining, discrimination and dangerous content on the world’s most popular app"
“We’re really at risk of having generations of young people that … have formed identities in response to something that a technology platform prescribes to be normal or the new normal.”
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/citizenship-subsite/files/our-common-bond-testable.pdf
Australian values in the Australian citizenship test (See page 33 onwards):
Dallas Mugarra (aka Captain Sanitiser) uses a mix of English and the local NT language of his area to convey important messages to his community. There are plenty of resources and news articles on him. He is even on TikTok. Great for Unit 4, AOS1!
Change, influence of ethnolects
https://www.pedestrian.tv/sport/kaylee-mckeown-interview-tv-blooper/
A tweet and an interview link. National identity links
Australian national identity. Construction of identity. Inference . Also 7's Olympic Twitter feedhttps://twitter.com/7olympics
I like this for the public identity shift of Kyrgios. Watch for further developments over the course of the Aus Open this year .
Representation of different identity. Inclusivity. Changing values in Australian society
Gender - how gender is represented. Inequality in Australian society. Overt norms
Representation
https://twitter.com/hasbro/status/1365038178814590995?s=21
Changing values in society and resistance to changing values - inspires ideas but need to ensure our use relates to AUSTRALIAN contemporary society
Gendered language
Changing values in society. Politically correct language.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/woke-weddings-a-real-name-changer-20210412-p57idm.html?btis
Changing values in Australian society (gender, family)
Changing values in Australian society - Govt of old white men struggles to keep up
Changing values re: diversity
PC language
Language and gender
New names for Covid variants with respect for global social harmony (not Australian but globally relevant)
Seriously Bonds?
Changing values. LGBTIQ+ identity
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