Cambridge University Press and the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) are excited to announce that Cambridge University Press will publish the Society’s journals Language and Phonological Data and Analysis from 2026 and the Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America from 2027.…
We are delighted to launch Computational Humanities Research. The journal offers a new venue for cutting-edge scholarship at the intersection of computational methods and the humanities. We are excited to build this new scholarly conversation together with scholars from around the world and to reach a global audience through Gold Open Access.
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.…
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
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.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
Long before Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in 2016, or Kamala Harris became the first woman vice president and launched her own presidential bid in 2024, another woman set her sights on the White House, at a time when women couldn’t even vote.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
Plenty has been written about the dog. Slobbery, goofy, embarrassingly friendly, with… well, everyone. Dogs are prominently featured in historic accounts and paintings, loaded down with ingratiating platitudes like “man’s best friend”.…
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
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.
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
The opportunity to showcase some of the exciting archaeological research currently underway on medieval Ethiopia in a journal as widely read as Antiquity is important.
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
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