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Child sexual abuse is rising but there is still ignorance around how to speak to and support children who are badly in need of help.
We need to enter 2018 with a fresh set of expressions for the workplace.
In little more than a generation and a half we have become a more caring and inclusive society.
The Mississippi is characterised in America as male, while the Indians see the Ganges as female.
Between them, Kazakhstan’s 18m people speak 117 languages but the country is opting for the Latin alphabet as it aims for wider global integration.
Attempts to change French grammar to make it more gender-blind have aroused the wrath of many conservatives.
Indonesian, an engineered language made in the time of colonialism, is “the envy of the multilingual world”. But no one speaks standard Indonesian on the streets. Does anyone speak the language?
French is no longer taught as a European language representative of “French” culture in South Africa. New modes of teaching, learning and research speak to an inclusive Africanist agenda.
People across the globe all see millions of distinct colors. But the terms we use to describe them vary across cultures. New cognitive science research suggests it’s about what we want to communicate.
New research gives weight to Noam Chomsky’s idea of a universal language ability.
The word Squ-w has an innocent origin, but its use in English has long been derogatory and racist. Place names which use this word should be changed.
Extremists haven’t always been associated with violence, or religious views.
To understand the full scale of the world’s linguistic diversity, we should be thinking about languages and how speakers relate to them.
‘If we can’t understand our rights, we have no rights.’ But efforts are being made to rebalance the inequalities.
Careful how you talk about Brexit. People are making assumptions as soon as you’ve said the word.
Humans behave like atoms when viewed from a distance.
Ethical engagement in multilingual communication is about mutual respect. More importantly, it’s about shaping a shared future through face-to-face communication.
There’s little research into origins of the geographic patterns of language diversity. A new model exploring processes that shaped Australia’s language diversity provides a template for investigators.
The founder of the West Virginia Dialect Project hopes to debunk some of the myths about the way Appalachian people speak and instill pride in a rich, oft-maligned culture.
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Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
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Roger J. Kreuz is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Senior Research Fellow of Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University; University of New England
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