Posts Tagged ‘sublanguages’
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Posted by Michael Rundell on December 30, 2011
One of the best things I learned this year (from my friend Sylviane Granger) was that a lot of teachers use our blog as a source of inspiration for lessons and assignments for their students. But this isn’t really surprising, when you look at the huge range of material contributed by so many great writers. [...]
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Posted by Raf Rundell on November 03, 2011
Subcultural English month finishes with a guest post by Raf Rundell on the topic of the language of musical subcultures. Raf has been in the music business for over ten years and has worked for several record companies in a variety of roles. He also makes music, as one half of The 2 Bears, whose [...]
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Posted by Orin Hargraves on November 01, 2011
Moving on from theatre and acting to music, subcultural English month brings you a guest post by Orin Hargraves, an independent American lexicographer and author of books about English, including Slang Rules!, a lesson book for English learners about American slang. _____________ The music that we call rap today can be heard in nearly every [...]
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Posted by Laine Redpath Cole on October 31, 2011
This month we’ve been looking into the murky world of subcultural English. As we did last month, we’ve asked our wonderful guest bloggers to answer a question on the topic and have put their answers in a single post for your enjoyment. The question was: ‘What’s the weirdest subcultural English word you’ve heard and what [...]
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Posted by Andrew Delahunty on October 27, 2011
Following on from Ben Trawick-Smith’s post earlier in the week, freelance author and lexicographer Andrew Delahunty continues the discussion of the sublanguage of theatre. ____________ I’m a member of an amateur theatre group. Drama is, of course, all about language, the words of the play. But there is also a particular variety of language used [...]
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Posted by Ben Trawick-Smith on October 25, 2011
Subcultural English month continues with a guest post by Ben Trawick-Smith from Dialect Blog. Ben began his dialect fascination while working in theatre. He has worked as an actor, playwright, director, critic and dialect coach. Other passions include linguistics, urban development, philosophy and film. He lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington, in the USA. [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on October 10, 2011
Have a look at this extract from a regular column in a British newspaper: This is a nice little hand for seeing a flop cheap and early, so I limped behind…. Juliano checked and I checked, knowing the button would definitely bet. I was discounting his hand, but I knew he would make a continuation [...]
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Posted by Michael Rundell on February 07, 2011
Have you ever come across the word queenlessness? No, I didn’t think so. But if you were a beekeeper, it would be a normal part of your vocabulary. (Check it out on Google.) In the same way, terms like collocation and pragmatics are everyday words for those of us involved in language teaching – but [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 14, 2009
Language changes faster than most of us can keep up with. The average person has a vocabulary of about 50,000 words, so with the much hyped arrival of the millionth word in the English language, we all have a lot of work to do. Let’s start with pwn. This is the second of two posts [...]
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Posted by Jonathan Cole on May 06, 2009
Have you come across the acronyms lol (laugh out loud) or brb (be right back) from texting or instant messaging? Perhaps you have lazily texted or typed C u 2mrw (see you tomorrow)? Are you a fan of the hugely popular Lol Cats (to the left) with their sometimes strange but often hilarious captioning language? [...]
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