Bermudian sociolinguist Dr Rosemary Hall will be taking part in a webinar on ‘Language prejudice and the documentation of minoritized varieties of English’ on January 20th. Dr Hall played a key role ...

How can linguists and educators work together to help maintain the linguistic voices of the next Zora Neale Hurston or Albert Einstein while at the same time support students on the Common Core, SATs, ...

According to Ethnologue (2020), English is currently spoken by as many as 1.268 billion people as either a first or a second language and thus ranks first among the most widely spoken languages of the ...

The progressive aspect, traditionally employed to indicate ongoing or unfolding actions, has evolved significantly across the anglophone world. Originally confined to dynamic verb contexts, its ...

For as long as she can remember, Sonja Lanehart has been fascinated by how people speak. In particular, she was interested in the differences she noticed between how white people spoke, when compared ...