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New publication: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014 (Springer)
Chapters by leading scholars in pragmatics and corpus linguistics, amongst others Jacob Mey, Jacques Moeschler, Cliff Goddard, Stefan Gries, etc. Click here for further information on the volume
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Shakespeare blamed for skin conditions’ stigma. A poxy idea?
It is the sort of headline that makes you do a double take: “Shakespeare accused of causing misery to people with skin conditions,”
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Mach and mascarpone: testing how vocabulary is gendered
A survey has shown an ‘awesomely sexist’ discrepancy between the English words understood by different genders (The Guardian Language blog)
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#BBCtrending: Is there a distinctive ‘Indian English’?
Is there a distinctive “Indian English”? Yes, according to a hashtag that’s been trending in the country – #IndianEnglish.
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin (27/06/2014)
Click here to read the new issue
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Never mind the hyperbolics. Please can I have some less?
When writers overuse hyperbole, it’s not just the readers who suffer – it’s the language