When language falls short of its ability to facilitate communication in the workplace, it can lead to misinterpretation and a sense of disconnection or exclusion.
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The meanings we carry around in our heads seem so natural and inborn that we fail to realise other people can have quite different understandings.
The idea a language should grow simpler if people need to learn it as adults has an intuitive appeal. But an analysis of more than 1,200 languages shows this doesn’t quite stack up.
Obesity is out and ‘adipose-based chronic disease’ is in, according to a recent paper. But a name change alone won’t fix entrenched stigma.
By the 1950s a standard version of the language emerged, today spoken by an estimated 200 million people.
Social media use has adversely affected students’ English language learning in Ghanaian schools.
The number of students studying languages in UK universities has plummeted in recent years but some creative thinking may help to reverse that trend.
The ban on noisemaking in Accra has been known to cause tension in the city.
Early childhood education isn’t about warehousing children so adults can go to work. There is an ethical imperative to support a paradigm shift in how our society values educating young children.
Across Canada and the United States, more than two million people are living with aphasia and its language and communication challenges.
The way the press talks about obesity has changed over time.
Who are the arbiters of contentious language? The answer, in the case of terms that refer to people, is the people to whom those terms refer.
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Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
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Senior Lecturer in German, Bangor University
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UKRI Future Leader Fellow, Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
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Lecturer in German, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Southampton
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sheffield
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Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor, Linguistics, University of Manitoba
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Chair, Education and Childhood Studies, Capilano University
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Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University
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Professor and Acting Director, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders; Scientific Director, Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging, Western University
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Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Assistant lecturer, University of Ghana
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Associate Professor, English and Communication Skills, Takoradi Technical University
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Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
