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English language offenders: show us examples of bad grammar
Spotted any misuses of language by people and institutions who should know better? Share your photos via GuardianWitness Grammatical mistakes crop up everywhere and are always a subject of lively discussion among our readers. Be it the Bad Grammar awards, the shortlist for which includes offenders such as the NHS, Tesco and Tristam Hunt, or […]
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La migración es cosa de metáforas (El País 28-3-2014)
OPINIÓN SECCIONES TRIBUNA La migración es cosa de metáforas Los giros retóricos exageran el número de inmigrantes y los pintan como hostiles
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CFP Eurosla 2014: Corpus Pragmatics and Second Language Research
EUROSLA 2014 3-6 September 2014 (University of York) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE THEMATIC COLLOQUIUM “CORPUS PRAGMATICS AND SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH”
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The volume ‘Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics’ (edited by Kecskes & Romero-Trillo) is published
For a full description of the volume
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Do different languages confer different personalities? (The Economist 8-11-2013)
Nov 5th 2013, 12:06 by R.L.G. | BERLIN LAST week, Johnson took a look at some of the advantages of bilingualism. These include better performance at tasks involving “executive function” (which involve the brain’s ability to plan and prioritise), better defence against dementia in old age and—the obvious—the ability to speak a second language. One purported […]
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Unreliable research. Trouble at the Lab (The Economist 19th Oct 2013)
Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting. To an alarming degree, it is not Oct 19th 2013 |From the print edition “I SEE a train wreck looming,” warned Daniel Kahneman, an eminent psychologist, in an open letter last year. The premonition concerned research on a phenomenon known as “priming”. Priming studies suggest that decisions can […]