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There is something deeply uncomfortable about admitting that you are not fully fluent in your own mother tongue. As a Mongolian born and raised in Mongolia, I grew up believing Mongolian was naturally “mine”: the language of my childhood, my homeland, my family, my memories. Yet after living in Australia for more than two decades, […]
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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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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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