The cultivation of language experts in post-Brexit Britain is essential if it wants to connect with fresh markets overseas.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Language
Displaying 481 - 500 of 720 articles
Can disturbed sleep patterns have an impact on a child’s ability to acquire language and vocabulary?
There is usually a historical reason why schools teach certain languages. But as new economies emerge, such languages may no longer be the best ones to learn.
A badly written law cost a US company US$10 million, when a judge ruled that a comma missing from a statute meant 75 truck drivers were owed four years of unpaid overtime wages.
English-speaking rugby referees are aiming to improve their foreign language skills – but how will this affect the game?
Saving students through the medium of comics.
You can’t check if a statement is accurate if it’s too incoherent to understand.
When they start life, clichés are fetching and memorable phrases. But overuse has sucked them of vitality – and now they walk among the living dead.
From “gay” to “poofter” to “fairy” - the words used by others to define gay people can say a great deal more about them than us.
So-called ‘soft skills’ – including interpersonal skills, critical thinking and relationship-building – are rated as being important across all jobs and industries.
The classroom setting is better for early teenagers, while self-guided language learning is better for adults.
Over the years, our understanding of how language and learning are linked has shifted and changed. There is ample evidence about the value of mother-tongue-based multilingual education.
For young children, how we speak is often more important than what we say. Even ‘positive’ generalizations can lead children to adopt negative stereotypes.
There are a range of linguistic strategies to build rapport with customers, but using their name is always the fall-back – with detrimental results.
While few people use the language today, many cherish its history.
The best way to sell someone a service or product is by speaking their language.
Swearing has often been associated with a lack of intelligence, but studies show that it could be a cleverer use of language than we thought.
Language is not fixed and meaning is what people make it.
We humans are capable of vocalising many different words in a range of languages. But what is it that gives us a remakable and variable voice?
Tolkien and Zamenhof are two of imaginary languages’ most successful proponents – yet their aims were very different.
Job Board
-
Lecturer in Indigenous Health (Identified)
-
Social Media Producer
-
Lecturer in Physiotherapy
-
PhD Scholarship
-
Senior Lecturer, HRM or People Analytics
Top contributors
-
Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
-
Kate Burridge is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
-
Course coordinator, The University of Queensland
-
Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
-
Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
-
Professor of Linguistics, University of York
-
Associate Professor in Linguistics, Macquarie University
-
Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
-
Professor of Linguistics and English, Florida International University
-
Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
-
Postdoctoral research fellow (Forensic Linguistics/ Language and Law), University of the Western Cape
-
Professor, Charles Darwin University
-
Professor of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
-
Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University of Pittsburgh
-
Professor of Linguistics
