In the multilingual milieu of Singapore, language variation and policy interplay to shape both individual identities and national cohesion. Centuries of colonial rule, rapid post-independence economic ...
Hmong secret languages : themes and variations / Martha Ratliff -- Variegated tonal developments in Tibetan / Jackson T.-S. Sun -- Some case studies on linguistic variation and their implications / ...
Language ideologies encompass the beliefs and attitudes that speakers and institutions hold about varieties of language, linking everyday linguistic practice to wider social, political and economic ...
Introduction: language ideology: science fiction? -- The linguistic facts of life -- The myth of non-accent -- The standard language myth -- Language ideology and the language subordination model -- ...
In 2022, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, increased by more than 500%. Most of those who have ...
Last fall one of Chanea Bond’s ninth grade students told her that he was going to “SOB” next semester. She was confused. A quick Google search didn’t yield a definition that made sense to Bond. So, ...
Opinion
AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable—and it's a problem for all of us
What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is written by machines? This question is not just important for the profession of ...
In 2001 scientists studying human language made a breakthrough: by looking at the DNA of a family with a rare speech disability, they found that a mutation in a single gene called FOXP2 were ...
Boston College’s TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) certificate program is designed to prepare future English language educators with the essential skills, knowledge, and ...
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