The journal Language and Cognition is pleased to welcome a new Editor-in-Chief, Stefan Hartmann, from 2024. L&C is grateful to departing Editor-in-Chief Bodo Winter for many years of service to the journal.…
The journal Applied Psycholinguistics is pleased to welcome a new Editor, Melissa Baese-Berk, from January 2024. The new Editor shares some thoughts about the history and future of the journal below.…
The Journal of Child Language is pleased to welcome new Editors in Chief, Elma Blom and Melanie Soderstrom, from January 2024.…
Until a few years ago, news about police officers in the USA killing a black man was hardly news. Thanks to increasing resistance from the black community, and especially by the Black Lives Matter movement, such killings have become world news, as has been the death of George Floyd and the court case against his assassin.…
In recent years, numerous organisations have been implementing unconscious bias training, with the aim of enhancing diversity and inclusion. This has become particularly important in view of the Black Lives Matter movement.…
With the year drawing to a close, I’ve been contacted by several journalists who’ve asked me, “What is the word of the year for 2020?”…
Traditionally, the second Monday of October is observed as Columbus Day in the United States. However, the holiday and its history are controversial.…
Epping Gardens, an aged care home in Melbourne, Australia, scored zero out of eight in a government quality assessment last year.…
Karen is a first name, in fact, it’s my first name, but online, “Karen” has evolved to mean so much more than just a name.…
A spokesperson for the World Health Organization (WHO) recently referred to asymptomatic transmissions of COVID-19 as “very rare”. This raised a furious scientific debate, which led WHO to walk back its comments and clarify that people without symptoms can and do readily spread the virus.…
Adventures in English Syntax – the author’s perspective Robert Freidin, Princeton University, New Jersey The seed for this book was planted almost 60 years ago when my 10th grade English teacher taught us the elements of English sentence structure: prepositional phrases and relative clauses; finite vs.…
Any headline that includes a yes/no question can usually be answered with an emphatic ‘no’. This is known as Betteridge’s law.…
This is the end of my seventeen years as an editor of Applied Psycholinguistics. I began as an avid reader of the journal and then started to work as a co-editor with Usha Goswami in 2001.…
‘Philosophy must plough over the whole of language’, as Wittgenstein famously stated. But which language? Singularising the noun allows a deceptive slippage between some language whose premises we take for granted (‘The limits of my language are the limits of my world’ was another great, and corrective, line of his) and ‘language’ in some dangerously, presumptively general sense.…
Nothing, absolutely nothing. Ok, I admit that is something of an exaggeration, but traditional grammar teaching in schools has certainly done almost nothing to improve writing.…
Paul Baker, author of American and British English: Divided by a Common Language? discusses the changing use of English language, with particular attention to the words like and love in this new blog post.…
This April, it’s National Poetry Month; the largest literary celebration in the world, marking poetry’s continuing important place in our lives.…
The Journal of Natural Language Engineering (JNLE) is a true success story. Indeed, the journal has gone from strength to strength in recent years.…
The Applied Linguistics Reading Pack from Language Teaching has been a popular collection of articles since 2011, generating more than 30,000 downloads.…
By tracking Hillary Clinton's subtle linguistic behavior over time, Jennifer Jones' research shows how these forces manifest in Clinton's self-presentation. Jones' findings suggest that as the Democratic nominee transitioned from First Lady to U.S. Senator to Secretary of State, she spoke in an increasingly "masculine" way.
Choosing the best word or phrase for a given context from among candidate near-synonyms, such as “slim” and “skinny”, is something that human writers, given some experience, do naturally; but for choices with this level of granularity, it can be a difficult selection problem for computers.…
Posted on behalf of Xavier Gutiérrez Xavier Gutiérrez is an assistant professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish at the University of Alberta in Canada.…
Posted on behalf of Editors William Labov and Dennis Preston Introduction Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the launch of the new online-only Journal of Linguistic Geography (JLG).…
The birth of Web 2.0 supposed a breaking down of the barrier between the consumers and producers of information. In other words, the web changed from a static container of information into an active element in which any user, in a very simple manner, could publish any type of information.…
There are ever-increasing demands on authors/researchers from both local and national authorities not only to publish widely but to do so in “reputable” journals.…
The most recent issue of English Today (28/3) is a special issue on the topic of ‘English in China today’. It includes ten articles dealing with different aspects of the spread of English and the uses of English in contemporary China, with contributions from leading Chinese academics as well as commentators from outside the country.…
2011 Brumfit Award prize runner up Rebecca Sachs provides an overview of her thesis, which was praised for the high quality of its content and presentation Individual differences and the effectiveness of visual feedback on reflexive binding in L2 Japanese In the field of second language acquisition, one of the ultimate goals of research into aptitude-treatment interactions is for language educators (and software developers) to be better able to tailor instruction to the needs and abilities of language learners.…
In this article, we’ll take a closer look at how the prêt-à-porter industry in France and the ready-to-wear industry in Italy evolved from their beginnings to their growth stages during the 20th century.…
The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ values and behaviours, Courage, Innovation, Respect, Collaboration, Learning and Excellence combine into the CIRCLE acronym. In the list under Excellence, a link takes you to core values for psychiatrists. One of those is humility.
How unequal were ancient Maya societies and what lessons can we learn from them about our own unequal world? Modern inequality metrics often focus on monetary wealth and financial statements, but other methods exist and inequality can manifest itself in multiple forms.…
Ethics Right From the Start The end of the year 2021 brought an extraordinary announcement that a technological genie was being shoved back into its bottle: Facebook (now: Meta) stopped using the facial-recognition software that allows it to automatically detect and tag people in photos and videos.…
Circadian rhythms are timekeeping mechanisms responsible for the cyclic repetition of metabolic, behavioural and psychological processes in all living organisms, typically over a 24-hour period.
Frederick Douglass said: “Once you learn to read you will be free.” On this World Book Day (7 March, 2024) Cambridge hopes to help spark that enquiry.…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
As Douwe Truijens and Marcel Hanegraaff have recently remarked (Truijens and Hanegraaff 2023), interest groups can play a very large role at the implementation stage of the policy cycle, potentially even reversing decisions made earlier in the cycle.…
With 2023 on the horizon, and the landscape of academic publishing in flux, Cambridge University Press spoke to the Editors of the SAA’s journals to find out what topics and questions are currently front of mind – for archaeologists, researchers and publishers alike.…
When a "nightmare dressed like a daydream" meets "mad, bad, and dangerous to know..."
Today is the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, the original tortured poet, and the release of @taylorswift13's new album.
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Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
The award, for the best public policy book by a Canadian, will be announced in May.
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'We are aware that infusion fluids can both save and hurt patients'.
Find out about modern Fluid Therapy in this week's featured author blog by Professor Robert Hahn
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