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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
    Julianne House, Dániel Z. Kádár

    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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  • 25 Nov 2025
    Emanuel J. Drechsel

    Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics: An Introduction

    My book, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Early American Linguistics, addresses an audience of interested scholars and potential readers with the following concentrations: My book may also be of interest to a broader audience wishing to learn about the intricacies of nineteenth-century comparative studies in linguistics, the social sciences, and other disciplines, foremost natural history. In […]

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  • 25 Jul 2025
    Lívia Körtvélyessy

    Welcome to the Colourful World of Onomatopoeia!

    A new book that reveals the sound-painted secrets of 124 languages. Boom… plop! Woof! Vroom! Sound familiar? Like something out of a comic book, baby talk, or a cartoon? Not quite! These “funny little noises” are actually a serious linguistic topic – and they have a lot to tell us about how languages work, how […]

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  • 14 Apr 2025
    Patriann Smith

    Sans “White Gaze”: From the Transgressive Multilingual Radiance of a Franco-Malian Pop Star to the Transnational Englishes of Innocent Caribbean Youth

    In July 2024, amidst the global attraction of a Paris 2024 Olympics with eugenicist roots historically designed in part to prove the athletic superiority of Europeans racialized as white, Aya Nakamura, the then most streamed female Francophone pop artist in the world, found herself “at the center of France’s culture wars.” A single-parent immigrant mother […]

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  • 22 Jan 2025
    Yaron Matras

    Britain’s cities are multilingual, but utopian visions of equality are being cancelled

    It’s a cliché that Britain’s power as a nation is linked to the English language, so much so that prime minister Theresa May assured the public that Brexit would be a success because “our language is the language of the world” and Boris Johnson complained that there were “too many people in our cities who […]

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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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