Brooching Words

University of Wolverhampton

Learn about the origins of your favourite regional words in this innovative Badge Making dialect workshop

Saturday Books

This interactive session invites the public to consider their favourite regional words and explore how different definitions sculpt our interpretations of place, society and selfhood through badge making. Regional words often mean a lot to us over the course of our lives and can shape our communal lives. Looking at how dictionaries define the meaning of a word, what sources they draw on to do this and how this process has changed across time, participants will think about how regional dialect words are not central to this process and how dictionary makers respond to the notion of a standard language and regional variety. Participants will end the session preparing their own dictionary definition of a word and produce a badge to take away with them.This workshop is part of a series of events organised by the University of Wolverhampton for the Being Human Festival 2023.The Being Human Festival is an annual festival of the Humanities, run in collaboration with The School of Advanced Study University of London, Arts and Humanities Research Council, and The British Academy.

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