Let’s celebrate how language works as well as what it expresses Linguistic elements as fantastic creatures by children’s laureate Chris Riddell. ‘There is nothing intrinsically deadening of a child’s growing linguistic competence in knowing what a phoneme is,’ writes Mike Newby. Illustration: Chris Riddell Chris Riddell’s drawings of linguistic elements – graphemes, phonemes, cohesive devices
Ο Τομέας Γλωσσολογίας του Τμήματος Φιλολογίας του ΕΚΠΑ σας προσκαλεί στη διάλεξη «Γλωσσικά καθολικά: μύθος ή πραγματικότητα; η περίπτωση της συλλαβής» της επίκουρης καθηγήτριας του τμήματος Αγγλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας του ΑΠΘ, Νίνας Τοπιντζή που θα λάβει χώρα την Παρασκευή, 27 Μαΐου 2016 και ώρα 12:00 – 14:00, στην αίθουσα 740 (7ος όροφος) της Φιλοσοφικής
Forty-four. That’s how many times Madonna uses the word “bitch” on her latest album, Rebel Heart. She has reclaimed and owns it – proudly, powerfully and with panache. It is, perhaps, one of the most successful examples of reclaiming a word that exists in the dubious track record of this linguistically defiant activity. Madonna has
Why English has a ‘we’ problem: when we say ‘we’, who do ‘we’ mean?, Thursday 10 December 2015 23.26 GMT – Gavin Davis In his Redfern speech, Paul Keating said we need to open our hearts, but who are ‘we’? If the speech was given in Mandarin, Tok Pisin or Warlpiri, we’d know. “We committed the murders.” That was
Token: A Journal of English Linguistics (ISSN 2299-5900, e-ISSN 2392-2087) Editors John G. Newman, University of Texas Rio Grande, Valley Marina Dossena, University of Bergamo, Sylwester Łodej, Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce. Token: A Journal of English Linguistics is an open-access journal which focuses on English linguistics in a broad sense: it accepts both diachronic and synchronic