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This week we are celebrating the release of our brand new edited collection, ‘Language and Justice’. You may already have heard of the academic areas of ‘language and law’ and ‘forensic linguistics’, but we are capturing something a little different, reflecting new and exciting directions in the research. So let’s start by explaining what we […]
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In the 1950s, research on language learning was dominated by behaviourism, which viewed language as a system of linguistic rules and patterns. Learners were encouraged to imitate and memorise words and sentences heard or read, and received reinforcement from their environment—rewards for correct responses and punishment for errors. Language acquisition was thus explained as a […]
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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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In Thomas Johnson’s updated 1636 edition of John Gerard’s The Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, there is an image comparing the ‘true’ and ‘feigned’ figures of ginger. Johnson explains that ‘the world has been deceived’ by the fake picture, circulated by another botanist, and so he is including it here alongside with the real […]
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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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Can Writing Academic Papers be Fun? Here’s a questionnaire for beginning and mid-career academics: If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are the target audience of Academic Writing Demystified: Publish and Thrive. If you are the owner of a cheese shop, well, perhaps not, but who knows, you may be wanting to […]
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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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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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