Babel Number 49 (Winter 2024)

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...

Babel Number 48 (Autumn 2024)

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...

Babel Number 47 (Summer 2024)

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...

Babel Number 46 (Spring 2024)

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...

Babel Number 45 (Winter 2023)

Babel No45 (Winter 2023) Articles Alice in Green-land Katie Wales investigates the rhetoric of rubbishThe relentless language of superiority and comparison Crispin Thurlow dissects the symbolic power of ‘elite’ and ‘premium’Bringing historical linguistics into the...