Sampler issue

Articles Sweet bully BottomSome unusual Shakespearean usagesThe US foreign language deficitA look at the state of language-learning in AmericaThe art of KonglishA guide to the fusion of English and KoreanRegular featuresAsk a linguistWhy is the letter ‘X’...

Babel No1 (2012)

ArticlesAnything you say may be given in evidenceA look at the work of forensic speech scientistsCircles of EnglishHow English norms are shiftingHow to speak VenusianThe problems of intergalactic communicationPoliteness in ChineseIs Chinese politeness really different...

Babel No2 (February 2013)

ArticlesKyanising, kestos and vassarettesThe stories behind famous brand namesLanguage as headacheHow to think like a linguistOur survey says…Research into the meaning of feminismPolariThe lost-and-found language of gay menRead all about it!A look at Early Modern...

Babel No3 (May 2013)

ArticlesDebunking the myth of the male polyglotA search for women with amazing linguistic powersEndangered alphabetsExploring the world’s endangered alphabetsLanguage, ideology and conflictHow language can create or solve conflictsWhat’s wrong with English...

Babel No4 (August 2013)

ArticlesAlice in Ego-landThe rhetoric of inanimate objects that talkAnimal languageCan animals really talk to humans?British Sign LanguageWhy BSL is in no way inferior to spoken languageLosing languageRecovering language abilities after a strokeThe ‘scientific’...

Babel No5 (November 2013)

ArticlesThe day of the cyborgJonathan Downie wonders if computers will take over translationDouble-voicingIs there is a linguistic glass ceiling in the boardroom?InterviewWilliam Labov and Gillian SankoffLanguage as patchwork quilt, mirror or mongrel?Why is the anthem...