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In pre-pandemic times scientists’ skilled migration and mobility were described as major drivers of international collaboration among peer scientists overseas. However, since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the inevitable deflation of migration and mobility has become a clear indicator of an upcoming process of de-globalisation or ‘slowbalisation’ (Irwin, 2020, online). But in a global […]
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Gavin Brookes and Paul Baker The UK has one of the highest rates of obesity in Europe. It is estimated that around 62% of the country’s population can be classed as overweight, while a further 25% can be diagnosed as living with obesity. Because of this, obesity has remained an eminently newsworthy topic for the […]
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Diversity is on everybody’s lips these days, along with equity and inclusion. These are indeed praiseworthy efforts to start righting the wrongs of the past. May they flourish! Diversity itself is diverse – it comes in a myriad of intersecting identities. One of many identities that we have is the one that our language gives […]
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The Lake Chad region in Central Africa is home to a plethora of languages of different genetic affiliations, among them the about 200 so-called Chadic languages, named after the Lake. The best known of the latter is Hausa; with almost 100 million speakers it is the most widely spread lingua franca in West Africa. Linguists […]
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Much of the advertising we see and hear attempts to portray a product or brand in a positive light. However, sometimes the most striking adverts appear when brands go against this positivity bias, and instead draw our attention to hard-hitting, serious topics in a shocking way (in a strategy known as ‘shockvertising’).
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David Gramling, author of The Invention of Multilingualism, answers the above question, and many more, following his book launch on 20 September. What similarities do you see between the languages you know? The most consequential similarity I see between German, Turkish, Spanish, French, and English is that they are ‘named languages’ whose elite, standardized forms […]
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In the past, anti-immigration sentiment was often enshrined in government policy as a form of institutional racism. In the late nineteenth century, concern was growing in the Australian colonies about the level of “non-white” immigration to Australia. A political slogan at the time was “White Australia: Australia for the Australians.” When the colonies united in […]
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As an applied linguist interested in science communication, an important specialised domain of language in society today, I have developed high perceptiveness of the richness and the power of the words that scientists skilfully and craftily use to describe observable facts, share them with their expert peers and persuasively align their readership’s views with their […]
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