by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
ArticlesBringing up bilingual childrenThe advantages of growing up with more than one languageMilitancy or manipulation?The demonisation of trade unions in the UK pressThe US foreign language deficitThe effect of globalisation on language competence in the USWomen in...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
ArticlesA battle not the warWho fought in the Linguistic War of the 1960s?FingallianThe case of the disappearing dialectResistance is futileThe language of television seriesSweet bully BottomSome unusual Shakespearean usagesThe tongue that Shakespeare really...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
ArticlesThe art of KonglishA guide to the fusion of English and Korean Borrowed words in everyday EnglishHow the UK owes more than just moneyDialect hunting by caravanAn extract from Stanley Ellis’s classic fieldworkFirst wordsWhat makes humans different from...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
Babel No9 (November 2014)ArticlesChildhood in Three Languages – Sarah Chevalier investigates multilingual language acquisitionEnglish Language in Australian Schools – Ella Hopkins on a revival in English language teachingThe Four-year-old Linguist – Rhonwen Shaw looks...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
Babel No10 (February 2015)ArticlesBeing Creative with Negation – Lisa Nahajec on creativity with negation in EnglishNew Chinglish – Li Wei describes a variety of English being reclaimed in ChinaNew Technologies and Language Learning – Billy Brick surveys new...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
Babel No11 (May 2015)ArticlesBilingualism and Emotions – Ania Marchwiak provides a bilingual’s perspective on how we express emotions in Polish and EnglishHebny and Abu – David Lewiston Sharpe on similarities between English and EgyptianMetaphors and Cancer – Elena...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
Babel No12 (August 2015)ArticlesBritish and American English – Jeremy Butterfield investigates how British and American English differThe Early BBC on the Question of Pronunciation – Jurg Schwyter describes the BBC’s attempts to prescribe how English should be...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
Babel No13 (November 2015)ArticlesThe Combinatorial Structure of English Hannah Little on the theremin and EnglishThe Language Debate – Monique Flecken and Geoffrey Pullum debate whether language shapes how we think Lebanon’s Language Dilemma – Jonathan Lahdo analyses...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
Babel No14 (February 2016)ArticlesAnyone for Menace? – Dominic Watt, Sarah Jelly, James Tompkinson and Katherine Weinberg investigate intimidating speech patternsChanging the Debate – Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw examine women party leaders’ languagePolitical...
by EmlynGHarr1s | Mar 27, 2018 | Issue guide
Babel No15 (May 2016)ArticlesThe Future of English – Simon Horobin on how English might look in the futureWho Did What to Whom? – Vikki Janke on new research into the language skills of children with autism spectrum disorderMetaphor Interpretation – Andreas Musollf on...