Legendary linguist John Gumperz passed away recently, and leaves behind a body of work that changed linguistic study as we know it.
Gumperz was a pioneer of the burgeoning field of interactional sociolinguistics, and it explains how we understand each …
Is there a difference between because and the shorter, snappier cos?
What’s in the future of swearing?
Our resident linguist Daniel Midgley got a chance to find out all this and more when linguist Kate Burridge was in town. …
Mother, father, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, and cousin.
Our words for family relations are so familiar to us that it’s hard to imagine them any other way. But other languages have some surprising …
Do you use question intonation, even when you’re not asking a question?
You may be an uptalker. Are you communicating something when you use it, or are you just driving people crazy?
Linguist Daniel Midgley takes it up a notch …
France, never shy about controversy, has banned the use of Miss, or Mademoiselle, on government forms.
But why? And while we’re at it, what’s the deal with Ms?
Linguist Daniel Midgley discusses terms of address on this …
Apple’s Siri software has put automatic speech recognition back in the news.
We finish our two-part discussion with stupid Siri tricks, and some ways that Siri has become embroiled in controversy. And why is Siri female?
Linguist Daniel Midgley will …
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