Language articles by Nina

Nina

nst — 2014-01-20 15:07:06 UTC

Here is an interesting article about the Australian accent. What are your opinions on this subject?

Ellie Lang - Researchers looking at how television viewing can lead to accent changes

2014-03-13 13:50:31 UTC

Language and power referring to Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair (Cedric)

2014-03-13 13:52:26 UTC

Do men and women speak the same language? Millie

2014-03-13 13:52:54 UTC

Does English still borrow words form other languages?

2014-03-13 13:54:09 UTC

How technology influences our language. Millie

2014-03-13 13:55:33 UTC

Taya- is texting killing the English Language?

2014-03-13 13:55:46 UTC

Language Change (Cedric)

2014-03-13 13:57:59 UTC

Joel Clark-Men's language becoming more similar to women's language

2014-03-13 13:58:38 UTC

Bethany, Farewell to freshman - Washington State to remove 40,000 pieces of legislation of 'gender biased language'...but manhole survives

2014-03-13 14:01:08 UTC

Kizzy D - attitudes on Americanisms

2014-03-13 14:01:52 UTC

the view that British language is now 'sloppy' and has no integrity

George Gallivan - how the internet is changing language

2014-03-13 14:01:58 UTC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10971949

Nina

nst — 2014-03-13 14:02:04 UTC

Thought this was interesting. How important is language in maintaining gender stereotypes? See this link too: https://youtu.be/B8gz-jxjCmg

Poppy AUSTRALIAN ACCENT♥

2014-03-13 14:04:03 UTC

George Gallivan - Accent snobs

2014-03-13 14:04:43 UTC

George Gallivan - Black Country Dialect

2014-03-13 14:07:57 UTC

Bethany - internet changing language

2014-03-13 14:08:11 UTC

Poppy

2014-03-13 14:08:41 UTC

''Wireless in the 1950s meant a radio. It's very rare to talk about a radio now as a wireless, unless you're of a particular generation or trying to be ironic”

Nina's Post

nst — 2016-10-04 19:14:27 UTC

Saw this the other day and it got me thinking about how we use the vocative and the adjectives we use to describe people. How we address people and refer to people has lots to do with gaining or sustaining power and really can show deep rooted attitudes. What do you think?

2016-10-08 17:06:43 UTC

Libs' Post

2016-10-09 15:55:48 UTC

Beth's post