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...

Babel No6 (February 2014)

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...

Babel No7 (May 2014)

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...

Babel No8 (August 2014)

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...

Babel No9 (November 2014)

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...