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Anaphora hot. Anaphora cold. Politicians’ rhetoric sounds tired and old (Mind your language, 21 April 2015)

The consequences of overestimating our own abilities can be grave.

April 24, 2015
A bullying, interfering waster: how politics gave the state a bad name (The Guardian 16/4/2015)

Personification can help us make sense of the world, but Margaret Thatcher and her successors have used it to turn the helping hand of society into an outstretched leg

April 16, 2015
Anthropomorphic language – it’s only human (The Guardian)

A little while ago, I went for a walk and spotted a frog in the middle of the pavement.

March 13, 2015
Protected: Discourse and Philosophy: Applications to Social Conflict

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Language Anxieties: A long decline (The Economist 12-Feb-2015)

THE English language, we all know, is in decline.

February 12, 2015
Is it time we agreed on a gender-neutral singular pronoun? (The Guardian, 30 Jan 2015)

Some argue we need one for socially progressive reasons. Others simply want one to perfect their writing. But so far more than a hundred attempts have failed

February 6, 2015

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