Episode 46 - Paul Kerswill & MLE

<p> </p> <p><strong>Show notes for Episode 46</strong></p> <p><strong>Here are the show notes for Episode 46, in which Lisa, Jacky and Dan talk to Paul Kerswill, Emeritus Professor, Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York about what has driven his interests in linguistics, but mostly about Multicultural London English:</strong></p> <ul> <li><p><strong>What it is</strong></p> </li> <li><p><strong>How it developed</strong></p> </li> <li><p><strong>How it’s used now</strong></p> </li> <li><p><strong>How it’s been reported on (and why it’s not ‘Jafaican’)</strong></p> </li> <li><p><strong>The discourses and metaphors around it</strong></p> </li> <li><p><strong>What it might sound like in the future</strong></p> </li> </ul> <p><strong>Paul’s University of York page: </strong><a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/paul-kerswill/">https://www.york.ac.uk/language/people/academic-research/paul-kerswill/</a> </p> <p><strong>Some of the presentations and papers Paul Kerswill has produced on MLE:</strong></p> <p><a href="https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/who-made-mle">https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/who-made-mle</a></p> <p><a href="https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/jafaican">https://englishlanguagetoolkit.york.ac.uk/case-studies/jafaican</a> </p> <p>and the full paper of this workshop is here: <a href="https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/93713/1/17_Kerswill_corr.pdf">https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/93713/1/17_Kerswill_corr.pdf</a> </p> <p>Some links to early reporting on MLE, MEYD and more: <a href="https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/search?q=MEYD">https://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/search?q=MEYD</a> </p> <p>Some of Tony Thorne’s reflections on MLE (he denies coining the term ‘MEYD’ though!): <a href="https://language-and-innovation.com/?s=MLE">https://language-and-innovation.com/?s=MLE</a> </p> <p>We talked about Accent Bias Britain too:</p> <p><a href="https://accentbiasbritain.org/">https://a