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How ‘Flip’ Entered the Story of the Russia Investigation

How ‘Flip’ Entered the Story of the Russia Investigation – Word’s history is tied to prosecutors, mobsters and novelists By Ben Zimmer Nov. 3, 2017 10:22 a.m. ET On Monday, court documents revealed that George Papadopoulos, a former foreign-policy adviser to Donald Trump, had entered into a plea agreement after his July arrest and had tried to cooperate with

Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics, 5-7/07, London, UK

The Survey of English Usage at University College London (UCL) will be running a three-day Summer School in English Corpus Linguistics from 5-7 July 2017. This Summer School is an introductory course in corpus linguistics for students of linguistics and the English language which is designed to be accessible and inspiring! You will be taught

The science behind the twisting alien linguistics of Arrival

By Rowan Hooper Science fiction thrillers usually send in gun-toting heroes like Will Smith or Tom Cruise to kick invading alien butt. Arrival is completely, wonderfully different: it sends in a linguist, played by Amy Adams. “Language,” one character says, “is the first weapon drawn in a conflict.” The big question to ask the aliens:

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS RESEARCH SEMINAR “Mock politeness: Perceptions vs practice”, Edge Hill University, UK

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS RESEARCH SEMINAR Thursday 27 October 2016, 12 noon, M35, Main Building, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk Dr Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex) In this talk I will discuss mock politeness (the kinds of behaviours that might get labelled as being ‘sarcastic’, ‘bitchy’, ‘passive aggressive’, ‘patronising’ etc.) and use the methods of corpus pragmatics to