“An Inevitable Trinity”

What shapes our understanding of the world

Further Reading etc.

• The Death of Lady Mondegreen
  Sylvia Wright, Harper’s Magazine 1954-11
• More Mondegreens with this YouTube Search
• And a hilarious stand-up routine on misheard lyrics (because he mouths the mondegreens you get a McGurk-like effect and hear what he mouths (warning, it’s a bit rude at the end)

“Words, Words Words”

Language and meaning

Further Reading ect.

• Sapir (1929) The Status of linguistics as a science
• Whorf (1956): Language, Thought, Reality (PDF-book of collected writings)
• Lucy and Shweder (1979) Whorf and his critics
• Pullum (1991) The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax
• Keneally (2010): You are what you speak
• Borotsky et al (2011): Do English and Mandarin speakers think about time differently?
• Gathara (2020/21): Twitter feed on US Elections

How to Be Credible

Establishing Credibility

Further Reading etc

• The whole New Scientist article on Psylocybin researcher Robin Carhart-Harris
• And Chapter 8 on Voices in the Folk Song from Language, the Singer and the Song (PDF print from the galley proofs) by Watts and my (reasonably) good self.

The Real Deal

Authenticity: what makes or breaks it

Podcast

Further Reading etc

• Denis Dutton: Authenticity in Art
• Hagmann and Andres Morrissey: Multiple Authenticities in Folk Songs

You Won't Believe What Happened

Conversational story-telling 

Further Reading etc.

• William Labov (2010): Where should I begin
• Barbara Johnstone (2016): Oral versions of personal experience: Labovian narrative analysis and its uptake

Once Upon a Time

Formal story-telling

Further Reading etc.

• Henry Glassie (1985): Introduction to Irish Folktales
  (with a strong focus on the Irish traditional storyteller, the Seanachai)
• Thomas A. DuBois (2012): Oral Poetics: The linguistics and stylistics of orality
  (appeared in an anthology with research on medieval oral texts)

Foundation Myths, Origin Stories and Histories

Origins and origin stories that we live by

Links and Further Reading etc.

• An interlinear detailed analysis of the Hebrew Bible
• Is it time to reassess our relationship with nature?
• Racism in Britain, according to Double Down News
• David Goldenberg (2017): “Black and Slave: the Origins and History of the Curse of Ham,” in The Bible and Interpretation

Terrible Things About To Happen

Conspiracy narratives

Links and Further Reading etc.

• BBC Ideas podcast: Three ways to spot a conspiracy theory
  
• SRF broadcast on Conspiracy Theories for Gymansium students (in German)
• And this would be amusing if it wasn’t also an indication od how badly rabbit holes can affect people: CNN report on James Caviezel promoting QAnon claims

• Manrat Chotsiri (n.d.): Conspiracy Theory
• David Godspower (n.d.): Conspiracy Theory

A Questions of Style

Literature and linguistics

Further Reading etc.

• Carter, Ron (2010): Methodologies for stylistic
  analysis: Practices and pedagogies
  
• Jeffries, Lesley (2010) The Unprofessionals’: Syntactic iconicity and reader interpretation in contemporary poems

Trust Me, I’m a Poet

Stylistics and Creative Writing

 The Songs and Poems

• Bellowhead Prickley Bush
• Steeleye Span King Henry (the passage mentioned starts at 3:15) or an earlier version
• Tonight at Noon
• What Belongs Together
• The Identification
• The Day Lady Died

Some FAM background material

• Andres Morrissey, Franz (2015): Pens and Swords (regarding the Workshopping Section)
• the British Council Creative Writing Teaching Pack
• the TEDx talk on creative writing and thinking

We’re In This Together

Language and belonging

Further Reading etc.

• Kingsley Amis (1997): “The King’s English” (on “proper” pronunciation)
• Kate Fox (2004):  Linguistic Class Codes (on English class distinctions through language choices)
• Barbara Johnstone (2000): The individual voice in language  (for a focus on language, community and members)

• Kurt Vonnegut on “Talent”

Students, Customers and the Market

Market Discourse in Higher Education  

Further Reading etc.

These articles that can/would add to an understanding of the phenomenon and its discussion. The ones with an asterisk were used in the lecture. All of them make interesting reading.

• Ball (2012): Performativity, Commodification and Commitment: An I-Spy Guide to the Neoliberal University
• Bunce et al (2017): The student-as-consumer approach in higher education and its effects on academic performance
• Cuthbert (2010): Students as Customers?
• Dowling (2003): Free Up Our Enterprise (very short!) *
• Fairclough (1993): Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse: The Universities *
• Hugentobler et al (2017): Private funding and its dangers to academia: an experience in Switzerland *
• Mautner (2005): The Entrepreneurial University: A discursive profile of a higher education buzzword *

• Olson and Peters (2003):Neoliberalism, higher education and the knowledge economy: from the free market to knowledge capitalism

Language, Women and Men

How language and perceptions create gender 

Further Reading etc. etc.

• Bian at al (2017): Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children’s interests
  
• Weisgram et al. (2014): Pink gives girls permission: Exploring the roles of explicit gender labels and gender-typed colors on preschool children’s toy preferences
• The podcast with Jess Zimmerman on her book Women and Other Monsters (thanks to Kat Geldmacher for this link)
• Smithsonian Review of Jess Zimmerman’s book

• And another Man Who Has It All Facebook post

A Load of Cobbler's

“If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with ...”

Further Reading etc.

Here are a few  texts that I relied on inter alia for today’s lecture:

• Frankfurt Harry (2005): On Bullshit
• Kellaway, Lucy (2017): How I lost my 25-year battle against corporate claptrap (great source of examples)
• Eubanks, Philip and John D. Schaeffer (2008): A Kind Word for Bullshit: The problem of academic writing
• Postman, Neil (1969): Bullshit and the Art of Crap Detection
• Smagorinsky, Peter et al. (2010): Bullshit in Academic Writing: A Protocol Analysis of a High School Senior’s Process of Interpreting Much Ado about Nothing
• Vinkers, Christiaan H. et al (2015): Use of positive and negative words in scientific PubMed abstracts between 1974 and 2014: retrospective analysis (for a total overview of the words that have made a career in medical abstracts)
• And a couple of John Oliver programmes on the reliability of forensic science and on scientific studies in the media
• A Guardian article on Corporate Bullshit
• Lucy Kellaway of Financial Times video