Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%
Skip to main content
Absolutely Revolting
The ABR Podcast: Coronaspeak: Tracking language in a lockdown by Amanda Laugesen | #16
Free Article: No
Contents Category: Podcast
Custom Article Title: Coronaspeak: Tracking language in a lockdown' by Amanda Laugesen
Review Article: No
Show Author Link: Yes
Show Byline: Yes
Custom Highlight Text:

Lexicographers, not just newspapers and television, respond to disasters. Language is never fixed, never finished, never done. In recent months, language has been shaped by the coronavirus. In this episode, Amanda Laugesen, director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at ANU and editor of The Australian National Dictionary, discusses coronaspeak, the language of lockdown. 
Square Image (435px * 430px):
Display Review Rating: No

Lexicographers, not just newspapers and television, respond to disasters. Language is never fixed, never finished, never done. In recent months, language has been shaped by the coronavirus. In this episode, Amanda Laugesen, director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at ANU and editor of The Australian National Dictionary, discusses coronaspeak, the language of lockdown. 

The ABR Podcast is released every Wednesday and features a range of literary highlights, such as reviews, poetry, fiction, interviews, and commentary.

Subscribe via iTunes, Google, or Spotify, or your favourite podcast app.

Music credit: 'Moonrise' and 'Negentropy' by Chad Crouch is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

Comments powered by CComment