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Mar
2023

Cats and Us – A Curious Relationship

You do not necessarily have to follow online cats on social media to read the book, but if you do, you might have come across one or the other cat-inspired linguistic process before or have perhaps found...
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13
Jan
2023

Life as a Bilingual: Part 2

“Life as a Bilingual” – a highly successful blog and now a new Cambridge book Back in 2016, Cambridge Extra published an interview[1] of François Grosjean[2], a recognized expert...
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9
Jan
2023

Life as a Bilingual: Part 1

Who could have imagined this kind of success for a scientific blog on bilingualism?In 2016, François Grosjean was interviewed about his Psychology Today blog, “Life as a bilingual”, by Ewa...
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16
Nov
2021

Languages: Connecting Lake Chad with the Middle...

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...
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15
Nov
2021

Negative advertising: a secret weapon?

Much of the advertising we see and hear attempts to portray a product or brand in a positive light. Figurative devices such as metaphor and metonymy are often used in advertising to portray a product...
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27
Sep
2021

What can multilingualism do for the study of...

David Gramling, author of The Invention of Multilingualism, answers the above question, and many more, following his book launch on 20 September. What similarities do you see between the languages...
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15
Jul
2016

Speaking Shakespeare Today

You can’t speak English without speaking Shakespeare. Not only did he introduce several hundred words still used today (assassination, beguiling, contaminated, domineering, excitement, fixture, go-between,...
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9
Jun
2010

After Deadline on the Dictionary

Word nerd alert! The New York Times announces the 50 Most Frequently Looked-up Words of 2010. Check out Philip Corbett’s observations on 50 Fancy Words… Read More ?
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