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PowerPoint Presentation

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Further reading / additional material

A load of cobbler's

• 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)

• 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

Discourse of division: Politics

Further Reading etc.

• John Wilson, (2015): Political Discourse
• Teun A. van Dijk (2000): Political Discourse and Ideology
• Deutsche Welle article on Annalena Baerbeck being a prime target for mysoginist hate speech
• A website with more information about the song "The Blackleg MIner(s)"

Language, Women and Men

Further Reading 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
  

Students, Customers and the Market

Further 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
  

We're In This Together

Further Reading

• 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"
  

Stylistics and Creative Writing

The songs and poems mentioned

• 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 Writring Teaching Pack
  
• the TEDx talk on creative writing and thinking

A Question of Style

Further Reading

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

Terrible things about to happen

Links and Further Reading

• 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

Stories that we live by

Links and Further Reading

• 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

Once upon a time

Further Reading

You won't believe what happened...

Further Reading

The Real Deal

Further Reading

How to be Credible

Further Reading

Words, Words, Words

Further Reading

• 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

An Inevitable Trinity

For your amusement:

• The Death of Lady Mondegreen
  Sylvia Wright, Harper's Magazine 1954-11
• More Mondegreens with this Youtube Search
• And a hillarious 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)