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  • 18 Dec 2025
    Photo of a crowd of people walking in Hong Kong
    Dániel Z. Kádár, Julianne House

    Politeness in Chinese Social Interaction

    2: How the Chinese Greet One Another? The title of this entry may sound like the title of a beginner’s Chinese language course featuring the expression ni hao 你好 as a simple greeting. However, we will show that that greeting one another in Chinese is far more complex than what meets the eye, and appropriately […]

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  • 10 Dec 2025
    Photo of a crowd of people walking in Hong Kong
    Dániel Z. Kádár, Julianne House

    Politeness in Chinese Social Interaction series

    1: Overview In this blog series, we will provide an overview of the representative features of Chinese politeness in daily interaction. Instead of discussing conventional topics, such as the use of honorifics in business meetings, the famous concept of ‘face’ and other phenomena typically mentioned regarding Chinese politeness, we intend to draw attention to seemingly […]

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  • 13 Feb 2025
    Daria Dayter, Sofia Rüdiger

    Decoding Persuasion: A Linguistic Journey Through Manipulation and Influence

    People will always do what they want to do. Right? Well, not exactly. We can easily think about situations in which we tried to change someone else’s mind: begging parents for a toy, asking a reluctant friend to come to a dinner party, or making a case for your boss to grant you a few […]

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  • 16 Dec 2024
    Paul Chilton

    Brexitspeak: Demagoguery and the Decline of Democracy

    “Demagoguery and the decline of democracy” This is the subtitle of my new book with CUP. But it might just as well be a headline on 5 November 2024 when Donald Trump was voted 47th president of the United States. There is wide consensus that his choice of far-right cronies to his government is a […]

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  • 9 Dec 2024
    Luigi Lerose

    Improving Your British Sign Language: A Guide to Proficient Use

    The book is the result of over 25 years of teaching experience, shaped by numerous interactions with students who were eager to improve their skills in British Sign Language (BSL). Over the years, I have received countless questions and requests from students, and these interactions have been instrumental in shaping both my teaching approach and […]

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  • 13 Mar 2024
    Katherine S. Flowers

    Changing My Mind about Language Policy

    When I first started studying language policy, I thought I knew where it came from, how it worked, and why it mattered. In my view at the time, language policy was about national politicians trying to manage the language use of perceived outsiders. Then, ten years ago, I started researching what would become the book […]

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  • 2 Mar 2023
    Edith Podhovnik

    Cats and Us – A Curious Relationship

    You do not necessarily have to follow online cats on social media to read the book, but if you do, you might have come across one or the other cat-inspired linguistic process before or have perhaps found a meowlogism not mentioned in the book. Yet, regardless of your online habits, a curiousity for all things […]

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  • 13 Jan 2023
    François Grosjean

    Life as a Bilingual: Part 2

    “Life as a Bilingual” – a highly successful blog and now a new Cambridge book Back in 2016, Cambridge Extra published an interview[1] of François Grosjean[2], a recognized expert on bilingualism, who talked about his Psychology Today blog, “Life as a Bilingual”[3] which he had started back in 2010. He discussed a number of topics […]

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