By Kim on November 10, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/clueless.jpg" Can this be right? Could the 1995 movie Clueless be partly at fault for the worldwide dissemination of “like” as an adverb, a quotative, a hedge and as a discourse particle in colloquial speech?
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Language, Sociology | Tagged clueless, colloquial speech, like, linguistics, valspeak |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 16, 2008
Bruce Moore’s new book, Speaking Our Language: The Story of Australian Language got a fair bit more press coverage – in the news pages as opposed to the reviews sections – than is usual for a tome authored by an [...]
Posted in Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, Education, History, Imperialism, Language, Media, Nationalism | Tagged Australian accent, Australian English, Australian history, Book review, Bruce Moore, cultural studies, Language, linguistics, post-colonial cultures, social linguistics, Sociology, sociology of culture, Speaking Our Langage, vernacular culture, Writings |
By Kim on September 26, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/20070801_jinnan_texting.jpg" align=left Hot on the heels of lexicographer Erin McKean’s advice that if it feels wordish, use it, here comes some more legitimation for linguistic innovation. The well known author and linguist, David Crystal, has published a new book [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Language, Sociology, Technology | Tagged cultural studies, David Crystal, education policy, education wars, Language, linguistics, literacy, sms speak, Sociology, sociology of culture, spelling, spelling variants, text messages, texting, txtng, Writings |
Recent Comments