Not every academic is a grammar geek. Yet most of us have pet peeves that tend to irk us when we spot them in our students’ work. And we’re spotting them more than ever, thanks to the hit that ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It investigates the subconscious and systematic knowledge that speakers of a language possess. Such knowledge allows them to communicate and ...

No doubt about it: Jenny Baranick is driven to improve the current state of our texting-, emailing-, and spell checker-dependent world. Why else navigate through traffic in a 2001 Toyota Corolla sedan ...

Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics (CA/IL) is the study of the mutually shaping relationship between linguistic resources and social interaction. We take a cross-linguistic and ...

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