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When was the last time you had a family dinner? And when was the last time you sent a message in a family group chat? For many of us, the answer to the second question is probably much more recently. Family talk used to happen around the dinner table. After work or school, everyone would […]
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Institutionalized as a census category in 1881, the concept of mother tongue is central in education policy, scholarly discourse, and popular understandings of language and social identity in contemporary India. In 2020, the National Democratic Alliance government, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, released the National Education Policy 2020 (NEP 2020), which proposes changes to […]
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In the summer of 1999, I was studying English at a language center in Canada, one voice among hundreds of accents crowding the poster-lined hallways. A teacher there, Mr. Wilson, was not someone I had ever taken a class with, but he had a habit of stopping students in the hallway to correct them. One […]
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The English language has travelled a long way from its origins on an obscure but fertile North Atlantic island, cobbled together with the various tongues of a series of invaders from mainland Europe and Scandinavia. Colonisation has transported English across the globe, creating distinct varieties in every region from America to India, South Africa to […]
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Many years ago I developed an amateur interest in British ecclesiastical history, brought about particularly by reading on holiday Diarmaid MacCulloch’s astonishing biography of Thomas Cranmer (1996); and I thought it would be fascinating to link this interest with my professional work in English historical linguistics and philology, thus contributing to what David Crystal and […]
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In our work with English language educators across the globe, we are frequently asked questions such as: How should different languages be used in the English classroom? How do we assess students fairly? and What approaches help to deepen understanding or critical thinking? In response to these and other questions, we find translanguaging theory useful […]
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There is something deeply uncomfortable about admitting that you are not fully fluent in your own mother tongue. As a Mongolian born and raised in Mongolia, I grew up believing Mongolian was naturally “mine”: the language of my childhood, my homeland, my family, my memories. Yet after living in Australia for more than two decades, […]
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Like many books, this one has a biography worth telling. The first edition of Understanding Language through Humor (ULTH) emerged out of a conversation with Cambridge University Press (CUP) Linguistics Publisher Helen Barton. It is fair to say that ULTH would never have come to be – not the first edition nor this one – […]
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