Tower Hamlets’ recognition of Cockney as a “community language” celebrates the role that all English dialects play in shaping individual and community identities.
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Gendered words can be offensive in certain contexts – it’s all in what’s being signaled, according to a sociolinguist
The word shows that language isn’t static, it evolves to reflect developments in a society.
Sociolinguists suggest that within the next century, 90% of the world’s languages will disappear, due largely to colonial languages dominating economies, education and governance.
It came about through sustained contact with native Spanish speakers who directly translated phrases from Spanish into English, a form of linguistic borrowing called ‘calques.’
The language question in Ukraine goes back centuries. It is deeply rooted in the history of old empires and Ukraine’s position as the borderland between the West and the East.
Colloquialisms such as barbie and smoko are like accents – part of the glue that sticks Australian English speakers together.
A new study of Australian media has found important cultural and social factors are omitted in reports about domestic violence. More must be done to improve understanding by journalists and audiences.
In Australia, the discussion around gendered violence is increasingly focused on diversity. However, policy and services continue to be based mostly on the experiences of white, Anglo-settler women.
Fluent expression is not always evidence of a mind at work, but the human brain is primed to believe so. A pair of cognitive linguistics experts explain why language is not a good test of sentience.
Many of the coinages fail to differentiate the mundane from the momentous. Has the suffix’s overuse rendered it essentially meaningless?
To Russian nationalists, if the Ukrainian language is classified as a derivative of the Russian language, the invasion looks less like an act of aggression and more like reintegration.
As political parties spar, insults and catchphrases are adopted, appropriated and reappropriated in a dizzying verbal arms race.
Bothered by ‘expresso’? An expert on speech and language explains why you shouldn’t correct mispronunciations.
For over a century, Black activists have used punctuation marks to subtly challenge official accounts of events.
For decades, forensic linguists have helped crack cases involving false author attribution, masked voices, false confessions in criminal cases and copyright disputes.
Accusing a person or company of ‘virtue signalling’ has become a common putdown. But slurs like these are not new.
Updates to the Oxford English Dictionary provide a fascinating glimpse into how language changes in the face of rapid and unprecedented social and economic disruption.
South African universities should do more to support students from low-income households.
The use of military metaphors in some contexts can be helpful. In medicine? Not so much.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
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Professor of Linguistics and English, Florida International University
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Postdoctoral Scholar of Linguistics, University of Oregon
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Dwight F. Benton Professor of Marketing, University of Michigan
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Reader in Discourse Studies, Lancaster University
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Lecturer, English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow
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Distinguished University Professor | Canada Research Chair in Linguistics | Founding Director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Anthropology & Public Health Emeritus, Alfred University
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Professor of Phonetics, University of Reading
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Professor of Sociolinguistics, Queen Mary University of London
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Research fellow, Griffith University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Senior Researcher at the SARCHI Chair's Higher Education and Human Development Research Programme, University of the Free State
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MD/PhD Candidate, Wayne State University
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Professor of Linguistics, English Language and Literatures and Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
