Babel No52 (Autumn 2025)
Articles
Autistic adults online Martine can Driel and Nelya Koteyko on autistic social media use
Breton’s battleground Jack Shiers explores the repression and resurgence of the Breton language in France’s classrooms
Māori language Benjamin Danesh on fresh threats to the Māori renaissance
National Linguistics Day 2025! Rebecca Mitchell on a big day for linguistics
Intercomprehension for plurilingualism Encarcinon Carrasco and Sean Murphy discuss the benefits of intercomprehension
A Baltic haven for translators Lena Pasternak and Sofia Ahlberg on a unique linguistic resource
Regular features
Meet the reader Meagan Beam
Language in the news Third person singular
Diary of a linguist Katie Wales’ linguistic observations about the world around us
Letters from a linguist Why learning a language is child’s play
Ask a linguist Why do researchers insist their hypotheses are falsifiable?
Kill the joke How we infer humorous intention
Languages of the world Modern Irish
Giving voice a voice Lisps, groovy whistles, and piercing sounds
A clash of symbols In with the [n] crowd
What has rhetoric ever done for us? Rhetoric, Plato and the Sophists (the sequel)
The word hoard The language of tennis
Language games Catalan chrononomy
Reviews Bill Bryson’s A Really Short History of Words, Joanne Greenberg’s In This Sign, and Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston’s The Dictionary Story