Issue Guide
Below is a guide to every issue of Babel and the feature articles and regular features you can find in each one. You can pick up all back issues on our Buy back issues page.
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Articles Sweet bully BottomSome unusual Shakespearean usagesThe US foreign language deficitA look at the state of language-learning in AmericaThe art of ...
ArticlesAnything you say may be given in evidenceA look at the work of forensic speech scientistsCircles of EnglishHow English norms ...
ArticlesKyanising, kestos and vassarettesThe stories behind famous brand namesLanguage as headacheHow to think like a linguistOur survey says…Research into the ...
ArticlesDebunking the myth of the male polyglotA search for women with amazing linguistic powersEndangered alphabetsExploring the world’s endangered alphabetsLanguage, ideology ...
ArticlesAlice in Ego-landThe rhetoric of inanimate objects that talkAnimal languageCan animals really talk to humans?British Sign LanguageWhy BSL is in ...
ArticlesThe day of the cyborgJonathan Downie wonders if computers will take over translationDouble-voicingIs there is a linguistic glass ceiling in ...
ArticlesBringing up bilingual childrenThe advantages of growing up with more than one languageMilitancy or manipulation?The demonisation of trade unions in ...
ArticlesA battle not the warWho fought in the Linguistic War of the 1960s?FingallianThe case of the disappearing dialectResistance is futileThe ...
ArticlesThe art of KonglishA guide to the fusion of English and Korean Borrowed words in everyday EnglishHow the UK owes more ...
Babel No9 (November 2014)ArticlesChildhood in Three Languages – Sarah Chevalier investigates multilingual language acquisitionEnglish Language in Australian Schools – Ella Hopkins on a ...
Babel No10 (February 2015)ArticlesBeing Creative with Negation – Lisa Nahajec on creativity with negation in EnglishNew Chinglish – Li Wei describes a variety ...
Babel No11 (May 2015)ArticlesBilingualism and Emotions – Ania Marchwiak provides a bilingual’s perspective on how we express emotions in Polish and EnglishHebny ...
Babel No12 (August 2015)ArticlesBritish and American English – Jeremy Butterfield investigates how British and American English differThe Early BBC on the Question ...
Babel No13 (November 2015)ArticlesThe Combinatorial Structure of English Hannah Little on the theremin and EnglishThe Language Debate – Monique Flecken and Geoffrey ...
Babel No14 (February 2016)ArticlesAnyone for Menace? – Dominic Watt, Sarah Jelly, James Tompkinson and Katherine Weinberg investigate intimidating speech patternsChanging the ...
Babel No15 (May 2016)ArticlesThe Future of English – Simon Horobin on how English might look in the futureWho Did What to ...
Babel No16 (August 2016)ArticlesRediscovering Saussure – William J. Carrasco on revisiting Saussure’s workThe Inside Story of Variationist Sociolinguistics – Sali A. Tagliamonte ...
Babel No17 (November 2016)ArticlesRomansch – Emma Jewell discusses the history and culture of RomanschThe Frog Stories – Jane Lugea on the ‘frog ...
Babel No18 (February 2017)ArticlesEncountering Conlangs – Deak Kirkham investigates the intriguing phenomenon of constructed languagesReign of the Grass-mud Horse – Susanna Wickes ...
Babel No19 (May 2017)ArticlesThe Poetics of Hamilton – Jennifer Harding on figurative language in the hit Broadway showKeep Calm and Use ...
Babel No20 (August 2017)ArticlesLanguage: Its Forms and Functions – Simone Bacchini introduces Systemic Functional LinguisticsThe Limits of Machine Translation – ...
Babel No21 (November 2017)ArticlesBeing Bilingual in America – Abhishek Dedhe looks at the tough language choices facing immigrant parents in ...
Babel No22 (February 2018)ArticlesI’d Know that Laugh Anywhere – Elliott Land discusses his stuy of naive speaker identificationSouth African English ...
Babel No23 (May 2018)ArticlesAround the World in a Loanword - Andreea S Calude on why we borrow words from other ...
Babel No24 (August 2018)ArticlesEverything You Wanted to Know about Film Translation Formats – Beata Podwysocka on subtitles, dubbing and voice-overAfrikaans in ...
Babel No25 (November 2018)ArticlesLanguage and Nationalism – Kiana Rezakhanlou looks at the relationship between language and the idea of nationhoodFrom ...
Babel No26 (February 2019)ArticlesFundamentally flawed words – Frederick Hale on the origins and semantic history of ‘fundamentalism’Tetun in Timor – Catharina Williams-van ...
Babel No27 (May 2019)ArticlesInterview with David Crystal - Vanja Karanovic interviews Babel’s Linguistic Consultant on the latest edition of his ...
Babel No28 (August 2019) ArticlesPoliteness in Tudor England – Irene Flack on what we can learn from Thomas Cromwell’s letters‘Feminism’ in ...
Babel No29 (November 2019) Articles Ecolingusitics - Josh Coombs looks at how discourse analysis can help us save the planet
People ...
Babel No30 (February 2020) Articles Interview with Jean Berko Gleason – Babel Editorial Assistant Matthew Butler speaks to Jean Berko Gleason ...
Babel No31 (May 2020) Articles
The multiple benefits of making predictions in linguistics - Timotheus A. Bodt and Johann-Mattis List ...
Babel No32 (August 2020) Articles Mining and the MOUTH vowel – Tom Devlin on deindustrialisation and sound change.Linguists at the ...
Babel No33 (November 2020) Articles Bringing the outside in – The Bringing the Outside In team discuss language-in-education policies in ...
Babel No34 (February 2021) Features The acquisition of kinship Michelle Pascoe on what it means to become a 'mother' Is Cockney ...
Babel No35 (May 2021) Features The ENACT Web App The makers of a new app for language-learning on picking up a ...
Babel No36 (August 2021) Articles The mistakes that we deny that we make them Eva Wittenberg and Adam Morgan on ...
Babel No37 (November 2021) Articles Tracking the dance of the tongue using ultrasound imaging Sam Kirkham and Patrycja Strycharczuk explain ...
Babel No38 (February 2022) ArticlesBasic English Frederick Hale on Charles Kay Ogden's work on an international auxiliary languageWhat's in a name? Harry ...
Babel No39 (May 2022) ArticlesTwitter complaints Nicolas Ruytenbeek on research into emotional contagion.The Welsh Not Tim Brookes looks at the history of ...
Babel No40 (August 2022) Articles The rather unusual linguistic landscape of Norway Simone Bacchini explores the complex linguistic history of ...
Babel No41 (November 2022) Articles Interview with the editors Lesley Jeffries and Dan McIntyre on 10 years of Babel Metaphors ...
Babel No42 (February 2023) Articles Made-up languages and the limits of the human mind Michelle Sheehan on what we can learn ...
Babel No43 (June 2023) Articles Citizen science for language Eloise Kadlecek on the importance of citizen scientists in new linguistic researchFear ...
Babel No44 (Autumn 2023) Articles The language of the gods David Voisin explores the etymology of contemporary words through the gods ...
Babel No45 (Winter 2023) Articles Alice in Green-land Katie Wales investigates the rhetoric of rubbishThe relentless language of superiority and ...
Babel No46 (Spring 2024) Articles Panamanian English Catherine Laliberte uncovers the linguistic legacy of the Panama CanalWhat they said. Or ...
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