How job adverts need to change to boost inclusivity

Linguistics experts are calling for a complete overhaul of the way language is used in job […]

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Tags: language, linguistics, Louise Mullany, Professor Louise Mullany, recruitment, research, School of English, STEMM Change

Language standards and linguistic inequality in Europe

With the Charter for Regional or Minority Language (Council of Europe, 1992) although Europe appears to be a leader in linguistic equality, why do many inequalities remain?

Tags: human rights, Languages and Area Studies, Leverhulme Trust, linguistics, Professor Doug Kibbee, School of Cultures

Language as a human right: justice, fairness and equality

This year marks the centenary of the inclusion of language as a human right in international treaties. Has this been an effective approach to linguistic inequalities?

Tags: human rights, Languages and Area Studies, Leverhulme Trust, linguistics, Professor Doug Kibbee, Rights and Justice Priority Area, School of Cultures

‘How to Read Your Boss’: Take part in our popular MOOC

A call for participants has been issued for the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘How to […]

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Tags: body language, how to read your boss, linguistics, Massive Open Online Course, MOOC, workplace

Polari: the lost and found gay language

Professor Paul Baker, Lancaster University, joins us to discuss the history of Polari – a ‘form of theatrical slang incorporating Italianate words, rhyming slang, and Romany, used especially by homosexuals’ (Oxford Dictionaries).

Tags: equality and diversity, history, Lancaster University, language, LGBT, LGBT Histor Month, LGBT History Month 2016, linguistics, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, Paul Baker, people and culture, theatre

Language learning, history and the Germans

In this inaugural lecture, Professor Nicola McLelland, School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies, will examine the history of teaching and learning languages in Europe since about 1500. Who decides what is ‘correct’, what is not, and how? How have people explained the rules? And how have Europeans taught and learnt their own and others’ languages?

Tags: German, inaugural lecture, language, linguistics, Nicola McLelland, public lecture, School of Cultures Languages and Area Studies