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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.
We want to be whitelisted and not blacklisted for jobs. White lies make stretching the truth okay, but you don’t want to receive a black mark on your record.
Generic names can take on a linguistic life of their own, becoming powerful forms of social commentary.
There’s a disconnect between how many low-wage workers are being described, and what they’re experiencing on the ground.
Irony is a slippery concept. Sometimes it’s used in speech, other times it’s used to describe a situation – oh, and it can also characterize an attitude. Is its versatility its downfall?
African American Vernacular English is part and parcel of Black identity. Its distinctive linguistic features are — wrongly — denigrated.
Pronouns rarely, if ever, change. Then along came the gender nonbinary ‘they,’ which was just anointed ‘word of the decade.’
One side wants to ‘get Brexit done’ while the other shouts the ‘NHS is not for sale!’. What does it all really mean?
Examining current attitudes to accents in Britain, do the same biases hold true as they did 50 years ago and what does that mean when it comes to the interview process?
How members of America’s two parties view the country – and its place in the world – might explain this phenomenon.
Each spin of the news cycle hits us with another ‘bombshell,’ while everything from free speech to race has been ‘weaponized.’ What’s the effect of being relentlessly exposed to metaphors of war?
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Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
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Postdoctoral Scholar of Linguistics, University of Oregon
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Professor in Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Linguistics, English Language and Literatures and Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan
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Dwight F. Benton Professor of Marketing, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Linguistics, Florida International University
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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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Professor of Phonetics, University of Reading
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Professor of Anthropology & Public Health, Alfred University
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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 Sociolinguistics, Queen Mary University of London
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