Race, Gender, and Political Speech: An Interview with Gabriella Licata

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was insulted on the Capitol steps in July 2020, it was a brief media sensation. But what does being called an “effing bitch” mean for how we think about political speech? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This episode of the Matrix Podcast features an interview with</span> <a href= "http://gabriellalicata.com"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Gabriella Licata</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, a PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at UC Berkeley, who discusses how the standard language ideologies of political speech come to shape perceptions of language and people in Congress.</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Gabriella utilizes mixed methodologies to assess language behavior and linguistic bias in sociolinguistic experiments, social media, and political discourse.</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">She tells us about her <a href= "https://journal.equinoxpub.com/JLD/article/view/20163">paper</a>, recently published in</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Journal of Language and Discrimination,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">which discusses the aftermath of an insult on the Capitol steps, and how it reveals the norms of American political speech.</span></p>