by Susannah | Tuesday, June 23, 2020 | Practice, Practice Vocabulary
Do you know what a neologism is? Put together from the Greek neo-, ‘new’ and logos, ‘word’, the term describes just what is sounds like: a newly minted word or expression. Most of the time, it is difficult or impossible to trace the origins of...
by Camila Otálora | Monday, October 21, 2019 | Get informed
Language, Attitudes and Repertoires in the Emirates (LARES) is a sociolinguistic study that aims, among other things, to find out how the languages spoken in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are used and by whom. The project concentrates on the relationship between...
by Thom | Tuesday, June 4, 2019
Upcoming Guest Lecture English As A Lingua Franca From Nativeness To Intelligibility Guest lecturer: Sara Albaladejo Albaladejo Associate Professor University of Murcia, Spain
by Thom | Tuesday, May 21, 2019 | Get informed
With a hugely successful television show like Game of Thrones coming to a close, it is worthwhile looking back at some aspects that have played an important part whilst being in the background. Both the books by George R. R. Martin that the show is based on and the...
by Öykü Coskun | Monday, July 2, 2018
Dr. Beke Hansen from the Christian-Albrecht-University of Kiel will give a guest lecture on Variation and Change in the Modal Systems of World Englishes. Feel free to come by.