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Future English (as a lingua franca) -The Economist
SEVERAL weeks ago, Johnson discussed his debate with Nicholas Ostler about the lingua franca of the future.
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New publication: Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014 (Springer)
Chapters by leading scholars in pragmatics and corpus linguistics, amongst others Jacob Mey, Jacques Moeschler, Cliff Goddard, Stefan Gries, etc. Click here for further information on the volume
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Shakespeare blamed for skin conditions’ stigma. A poxy idea?
It is the sort of headline that makes you do a double take: “Shakespeare accused of causing misery to people with skin conditions,”
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Mach and mascarpone: testing how vocabulary is gendered
A survey has shown an ‘awesomely sexist’ discrepancy between the English words understood by different genders (The Guardian Language blog)
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#BBCtrending: Is there a distinctive ‘Indian English’?
Is there a distinctive “Indian English”? Yes, according to a hashtag that’s been trending in the country – #IndianEnglish.
