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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
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EU referendum: time for UK university leaders to speak out?
Universities have as much to lose as major companies from a ‘no’ vote in any forthcoming EU referendum, says Paul White The chief executive of the Confederation of British Industry has done it. Firms involved in inward investment in the UK (such as Nissan) have done it. But, as yet, British university leaders have not…
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Tricky Little Things
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SHOUTY ALL CAPS and pass-agg full stops: how instant messaging has created a new English
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
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They can call it what they like. We know it’s the bedroom tax | Mind your language
Complex, confusing and impenetrable: no wonder ‘abolition of the spare room subsidy’ has not caught on If it is true that “whoever controls the language, controls the debate”, then the bedroom tax is doomed. Why? Because it is called the “bedroom tax” and not the “abolition of the spare room subsidy”. This week the expression…