by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 4, 2021 | Issue guide
Babel No34 (February 2021) Features The acquisition of kinship Michelle Pascoe on what it means to become a ‘mother’ Is Cockney dead? Amanda Cole investigates who can be called a Cockney, and what their accent sounds like Surveillance as a marker of...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Dec 3, 2020 | Issue guide
Babel No33 (November 2020) Articles Bringing the outside in – The Bringing the Outside In team discuss language-in-education policies in Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia. Word association – Peter Thwaites on what word association can tell us about how language is...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Aug 25, 2020 | Issue guide
Babel No32 (August 2020) Articles Mining and the MOUTH vowel – Tom Devlin on deindustrialisation and sound change.Linguists at the Movies – the team behind @LinguistsMovies on language at the cinema.Minimal English – Boudjemaa Dendenne on how a lingua franca could...
by EmlynGHarr1s | May 19, 2020 | Issue guide
Babel No31 (May 2020) Articles
The multiple benefits of making predictions in linguistics – Timotheus A. Bodt and Johann-Mattis List provide evidence for the regularity of sound changeWhat’s in a proper name? – Lieven Vandelanotte on whether proper names...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Feb 28, 2020 | Issue guide
Babel No30 (February 2020) Articles Interview with Jean Berko Gleason – Babel Editorial Assistant Matthew Butler speaks to Jean Berko Gleason ahead of her Babel Lecture in June You say potato – Ella Jeffries talks about her work exploring children’s awareness of...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Nov 26, 2019 | Issue guide
Babel No29 (November 2019) Articles Ecolingusitics – Josh Coombs looks at how discourse analysis can help us save the planet
People versus machines? – Vanessa Hu looks at the advantages and disadvantages of a new age of translationA brief history of cant...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Aug 6, 2019 | Issue guide
Babel No28 (August 2019) ArticlesPoliteness in Tudor England – Irene Flack on what we can learn from Thomas Cromwell’s letters‘Feminism’ in the news – Matthew Evans investigates definitions of ‘feminism’ and how they might affect our viewsLinguacuisine – Learning...
by EmlynGHarr1s | May 15, 2019 | Issue guide
Babel No27 (May 2019)ArticlesInterview with David Crystal – Vanja Karanovic interviews Babel’s Linguistic Consultant on the latest edition of his encyclopedia and his careerThe language of pick-up artists – Sofia Rüdiger and Daria Dayter investigate the...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Feb 21, 2019 | Issue guide
Babel No26 (February 2019)ArticlesFundamentally flawed words – Frederick Hale on the origins and semantic history of ‘fundamentalism’Tetun in Timor – Catharina Williams-van Klinken on the rise of a small local language in East TimorThe Changing face of English...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Nov 9, 2018 | Issue guide
Babel No25 (November 2018)ArticlesLanguage and Nationalism – Kiana Rezakhanlou looks at the relationship between language and the idea of nationhoodFrom Cookie to Boss – Claudia Bensi explores how Dutch influenced US language and societyLinguistic X-men – Hannah...
