Words and Actions
A podcast about how language matters in business, politics and beyond.
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Linguistic activism (opens the original)
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Ever looked at the wallpaper and suddenly thought: hang on, who chose THAT? Language can be a bit like wallpaper: it surrounds us so completely that we stop noticing it. In episode 33, we get out the metaphorical "scraper". We revisit Covid metaphors, watch misleading headlines get crossed out and rewritten, hear what it's like to live somewhere between academia and activism (jogging bottoms included), and ask that most important of academic questions: so what? From reflecting to reframing to ac
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