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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.
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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
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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.
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Protected: Pragmatics and Discourse in English
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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.