Articles
The languages of the pre-Roman West
Young Writers’ Competition winner Jonathan Lucas on how Latin took over as the civic language of the Empire
75 years of Ethnologue
Stephen Jones outlines the past, present and future of the guide to the languages of the world
Why are we so obsessed with people who sound ‘different’?
Victoria Beatrix Fendel looks at Aristophanic comedy and the case of Gerald from Clarkson’s Farm
Breaking bread with the President
Christoph Schubert looks at politeness in American state dinner speeches
Regular features
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Language in the news
Irresponsible media -
Diary of a linguist
Katie Wales’ linguistic observations about the world around us -
Letters from a linguist
A multilingual hospital with the accent on care -
Lives in language
Joseph H. Greenberg (1915-2001) -
Languages of the world
Gascon -
Infographic
Classifying and measuring languages, and countries with the most endangered languages -
Kill the joke
Why we find rude jokes particularly funny -
The word hoard
The language of hawking -
Giving voice a voice
Talking ‘bout mAI generation -
A clash of symbols
The princes and the [p] -
Language games
You and yours in Yandruwandha -
What has rhetoric ever done for us?
Aristotle’s art of rhetoric -
Reviews
Jonathan Clifton’s Talking for Success, Natasha Pulley’s The Mars House, and Tim Brookes’ An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets
