Tag Archives: Linguistics
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Jeremy J. Smith
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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Stanley Dubinsky , University of South Carolina
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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Paula Rautionaho, Mikko Laitinen
English linguistics is in the middle of a transformation. That’s nothing new. This field has always been quick to adapt, but the current shift may be different in scale. It mirrors the broader digitalization that is shaping science, education, and everyday life. It’s driven not only by new AI‑based tools that have changed how we […]
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Asya M. Pereltsvaig
We all use language every day: not only to communicate thoughts and ideas to other people, but also for our internal monologue and, some might argue, for organizing thought. But what are the inner workings of human language and what makes it different from animal communication? Professional linguists study these questions in their finest detail, […]
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Claire Foley, Suzanne Flynn, Barbara Lust
How is it that any child, anywhere, can acquire any of the world’s estimated 6,000 languages, in a matter of only a few years? This mystery has long intrigued scholars as well as those who take care of young children. Each of these thousands of languages varies from each of the others in many ways—for […]
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Raymond Hickey
The New Cambridge History of the English Language represents a second edition of the original Cambridge history published in the 1990s. Much has happened in English historical linguistics in the last three decades and so it was felt that a new history should reflect these shifts in research evident in current historical studies. Specifically, the […]
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Julianne House
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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Dániel Z. Kádár, Julianne House
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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Jeremy J. Smith
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 […]
Read More
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Stanley Dubinsky , University of South Carolina
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 – […]
Read More
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Paula Rautionaho, Mikko Laitinen
English linguistics is in the middle of a transformation. That’s nothing new. This field has always been quick to adapt, but the current shift may be different in scale. It mirrors the broader digitalization that is shaping science, education, and everyday life. It’s driven not only by new AI‑based tools that have changed how we […]
Read More
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Asya M. Pereltsvaig
We all use language every day: not only to communicate thoughts and ideas to other people, but also for our internal monologue and, some might argue, for organizing thought. But what are the inner workings of human language and what makes it different from animal communication? Professional linguists study these questions in their finest detail, […]
Read More
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Claire Foley, Suzanne Flynn, Barbara Lust
How is it that any child, anywhere, can acquire any of the world’s estimated 6,000 languages, in a matter of only a few years? This mystery has long intrigued scholars as well as those who take care of young children. Each of these thousands of languages varies from each of the others in many ways—for […]
Read More
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Raymond Hickey
The New Cambridge History of the English Language represents a second edition of the original Cambridge history published in the 1990s. Much has happened in English historical linguistics in the last three decades and so it was felt that a new history should reflect these shifts in research evident in current historical studies. Specifically, the […]
Read More
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Julianne House
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 […]
Read More
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Dániel Z. Kádár, Julianne House
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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