Broadcast media
I appear in the media to discuss my own research as well as a range of language topics. I have been interviewed on BBC News, Sky News and TalkTV, and my work has been discussed on the Jeremy Vine Show on Channel 5. I have also been interviewed for many international, national and regional radio stations including BBC World Service, Talk Radio Europe, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, Sky Radio, Classic FM, Today FM, Voice of Russia, Newstalk, BBC Radio Wales, 2SER (Australia), Radio New Zealand, BBC Radio Birmingham, BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire, BBC Radio Devon , BBC Radio Lancashire, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio London, BBC Radio Merseyside , BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Radio Three Counties.
Print & digital media
Here are a few recent press articles about my research:
Dr Robbie Love, a lecturer in English Language at Aston University, Birmingham, said: “Swearing, as with all language use, is entirely context dependent and context specific. It’s what you do with the word and the various functions, as far as performed, that informs the perception of how acceptable it is.”
The Guardian
Dr Robbie Love, a linguist and expert in swearing from Aston University, analysed the enhanced audio and ruled out the words on the tape being “s*** MP”.
Sunday Mirror
The study, by Dr Robbie Love at Aston University, found there was a 27% drop in swearing in Britain over the 20-year period, down from 1,822 to 1,320 swearwords per million.
The Guardian
Robbie Love, a lecturer in English Language at Aston University, has researched social attitudes to swearing, and found that over a 20-year period, “bugger” has fallen from the fifth most-common swear word to the ninth, while “bastard” dropped from seventh to 10th. The climbers included “shit”, from third to second; “arse”, from eighth to sixth; and “dick”, from 10th to seventh.
The i
“A lot of new tech is abstract and difficult to understand, which makes it ripe for metaphor,” Dr Robbie Love, a linguistics fellow at the University of Leeds, who conducted the study, told BBC News.
BBC
- How we learnt to stop worrying about the F-bomb (The Telegraph)
- A bloody shame: Britons find a new favourite swearword (The Guardian)
- Blow the what doors off? Swearing on the slide (The Times)
- ‘Bloody’ no longer the most commonly used British swear word (The Telegraph)
- Brits have washed their mouths out! (Daily Mail)
- ‘Bloody’ no longer the UK’s most popular swear word, study suggests (Independent)
- ‘Bloody not!’ Britain’s most popular swear word laid bare by linguist – ‘Big rise in use’ (Express)
- Britain’s favourite swear word revealed (The Week)
- SWEAR BY IT Brits ditch ‘bloody’ as favourite swear word as most popular curse revealed – despite swearing dropping 27% in 20 years (The Sun)
I have also been quoted about my research by BBC News, The Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, iNews, The Daily Mail, SchoolsWeek, among other print & digital media.
Popular writing
I am a featured author for Cambridge University Press’ World of Better Learning blog. In addition, I have written blogs and articles for publications including ESRC’s blog, ESRC’s Britain In… magazine, English & Media Centre’s Emagazine, The Conversation, ESRC’s Society Now magazine and Macmillan Dictionary. See examples of my writing here.
Podcasts
In 2023 I was interviewed on the Because Language podcast about my research on swearing and the development of CorpusCast.
In 2023 I was interviewed on the Society Matters podcast about my research into swearing:
In 2021 I was interviewed on Lexis Podcast about my research into swearing:
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