New Episode: Orwell & Modern Political Speech

Writing about web page https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/podcast

Podcast episodes are like buses, all of sudden two come along at once! After our last recent Exchanges Discourse episode, we are pleased to be able to bring you a chat with another of our recent authors. This episode I’m in conversation with past journal author Imogen Birkett. Our conversation is framed around her paper: Literature in Politics: The Appropriation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in contemporary British parliamentary debate, which appeared in the most recent (V10.3) of Exchanges.

Taking as its core theme, Imogen’s work around contemporary British parliamentary speech we consider her findings, and the avenues for future work, particularly within the realm of social media. Naturally, as with every episode of the podcast we also touch on words of advice for graduate and early career researchers approaching their first journal articles.

Orwell & Modern Political Speech: In Conversation with Imogen Birkett

Listen in via either of the following links:

• https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/exchangesias/episodes/Crossing-the-Creative-Frontier-In-Conversation-with-Sonakshi-Srivastava-e25va0h
• https://open.spotify.com/episode/1EO7zB57rxUvgJXOnsxLmz?si=KYF2I5-lTyaFYqrRe4dIzQ

For those looking to jump directly to the key points, here are the main episode signposts.

• 0:00 Opening
• 1:59 Paper
• 8:08 Public awareness of Orwellian concepts
• 10:43 Why Orwellian speech matters
• 13:26 Developing further research themes
• 15:16 Orwellian social media discourse
• 16:48 Advice for authors
• 20:26 Closing

Gareth Johnson : 22 Jun 2023 09:00 |  Tags: Episode Orwell Parliament Podcast Speech |  Comments (0) |  Report a problem