EVERY year, the Linguistic Society of the Philippines (LSP) and De La Salle University (DLSU) honor esteemed linguists with ...

Powerful and innovative World Englishes theorizing should factor in ongoing developmental processes and aim at explanations for the blurring between major variety types such as ESL (English as a ...

THE phenomenal spread of English around the world has resulted in multiple forms of the language. The world has seen the emergence of many different Englishes, such as Hong Kong English, Indian ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There have been nearly 700 attempts to create a synthetic global language, the best known being Esperanto. None has ...

Lynne Murphy (Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex) visited CU-Boulder to share her research on American and British varieties of English. "Separated by a Common Language?: The ...

Stewart Riddle does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Dutch artist Nicoline van Harskamp makes videos in which she explores spoken language. In a work called «My Name is Language», everyone are in a waiting room (which gives the impression of being in an ...

In my last week’s column, I discussed some of the Indian English expressions and raised these questions: Is English the sole property of the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada? Which ...