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Open door: The style guide editor on… peer pressure and using people’s proper names
Our policy on referring to lords and ladies is impossible to apply consistently and credibly. So, should we drop titles altogether? Which of these (hypothetical, I emphasise) sentences do you think works better? Baron Hall of Birkenhead has invited The Lord Lloyd-Webber, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho and Baron Foster of Thames Bank to star in […]
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Men are increasingly rising in pitch at the end of their sentences
More men speaking in girls’ ‘dialect’, study shows By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC News 6 December 2013 Last updated at 01:37
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New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/69175957208
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CFP Eurosla 2014: Corpus Pragmatics and Second Language Research
EUROSLA 2014 3-6 September 2014 (University of York) CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE THEMATIC COLLOQUIUM “CORPUS PRAGMATICS AND SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCH”
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Johnson: We are all friends now
MANY languages use different words for “you”, depending on the relationship between the speaker and the addressee. “You” tends to have two versions throughout Europe (tu and vous in French; du and Sie in German; tu and lei in Italian, etc), and knowing how to use them is a big part of linguistic savvy. Typically […]
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Phrases Gone Astray
Modifying phrases should usually be adjacent to what they are describing. When such a phrase pops up in an unlikely part of the sentence, the effect ranges from clunkiness to confusion to unintended comedy. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/misplaced-phrases/