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As we take stock nationally of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and economy of the UK, we would do well to think about the many people who have not made a good recovery from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The World Health Organization (2021) defines the “post COVID-19 condition” (or Long COVID) as […]
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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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Joshua A.T. Fairfield, author of Runaway Technology, on hate speech, disinformation, and technology,
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My friend’s mother died on Wednesday in a Dublin hospital, of C-19. None of the usual obsequies are available to me now: I can’t send flowers or go to the funeral. What’s left to me is words and only words; words over the phone, words typed in a text message. Better, more personal, more considered […]
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People who love poetry are not likely to love these sorts of thing: ˌɪntərˈnæʃənəl fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəbɪt VP -> t (M) (have + prf) (be + prg) V *h2ner-seerg gwhen-ontabs doruabs Which is too bad, because there are great riches hidden in these nuggets, just as in good poems. It took many years of hard work […]
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People fight about all sorts of things online. Most of you probably don’t spend a lot of time reading comments on YouTube, but you probably know they’re not particularly intellectually stimulating places. I’ve been interested in why this is the case, why there’s so much drama online, for the past ten years. My most recent book ‘Religious Talk Online’ looks at how Christians, […]
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Implausible as it may seem, while all speakers of a language have knowledge of language, they often have little knowledge about language. Their knowledge of their spoken language, remains, as we say, implicit, unavailable to consciousness. A literate education is largely responsible for making that implicit knowledge explicit, something to think about. And that, the […]
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Tim William Machan, editor of Imagining Medieval English - Language Structures and Theories 500-1500 (2016) explores the significance of the phrase 'language and literature'.
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