by Paul Waddington | Mar 4, 2025 | Issue guide
Babel No50 (Spring 2025) Articles 50 fantastic linguistics books Babel linguists tell us about their favourite linguistics books The language of the birds Our Young Writer’s Competition winner, Benjamin Hong, looks at whistled languages Regular features Meet the...
by Paul Waddington | Nov 1, 2024 | Issue guide
Babel No49 (Winter 2024) Articles When empathy meets communication Victor Gonzalez-Ruiz and Antonio Martin look at the importance of plain language At the movies Natalia Server Beneto looks at sociolects in Mid90s What can we learn from endangered languages? Tim...
by Paul Waddington | Aug 2, 2024 | Issue guide
Babel No48 (Autumn 2024) Articles In defence of plumbing Joseph Wilson talks to James Pennebaker about his studies into the significance of function words The One With All The Sarcasm Pauline Madella discusses the pragmatics of Chandler Bing’s sarcastic humour...
by Paul Waddington | May 21, 2024 | Issue guide
Babel No47 (Summer 2024) Articles Social consensus and divine inspiration Peter Hallman looks at Ibn Jinni’s remarks on the origin of languageLanguage contact and syntactic change Robin Meyer explores how the structures of one language can be influenced by anotherAre...
by Paul Waddington | Feb 27, 2024 | Issue guide
Babel No46 (Spring 2024) Articles Panamanian English Catherine Laliberte uncovers the linguistic legacy of the Panama CanalWhat they said. Or did they? Jim O’Driscoll on the importance of how we present others’ speech‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ Lesley Jeffries looks at the...
