The extreme right has learned to navigate Germany’s strict laws on extremist symbols

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Show notes for Episode 86⚠️🤬⚠️Contains swearing (obvs) and quite a lot of it…handled seriously and with academic rigour (🧐)⚠️🤬⚠️Welcome to episode 86 of Lexis in which we go in mob-handed with 5 (coun...

Show notes for Episode 85⚠️⚠️⚠️We talk about some topics and forms of language - the language of incels and the manosphere, for example - that might be considered unpleasant and upsetting for some lis...

Welcome to episode 84 of Lexis in which we have both an interview and a Lang in the News segment. Amanda and Dan talk to Dr Daria Bahtina, Continuing Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA ...

Welcome to episode 83 of Lexis, another student-led episode, which this time features Oli, an A Level student at the Dubai British School interviewing Dr Sarah Hopkyns, with some help from Dan. Sarah ...

Welcome to episode 82 of Lexis, in which Raj, Dan and (guest interviewer and friend of the pod) Amanda Cole talk to Dr Rianna Walcott, Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Marylan...

What the Curriculum and Assessment review could mean for English Language

Some might regard this slang as ‘brain rot’, but the first word of the year just for tweens and teenagers could be the most hopeful development of 2025, says writer and podcaster Coco Khan

Welcome to episode 78 of Lexis in which Raj & Dan talk to John Kelly, former head of content at Dictionary.com, previous contributor to Merriam-Webster and Oxford Dictionaries, emoji lexicographer for...

a word is a unit of meaning and a unit of meaning, which is sensible. doesn't have to quite literally be one discreet unit of characters. So I think because of writing and formal writing standards, w

Uh, but what's really interesting to me is just the shift, as I was talking about before, from the kind of techno optimism of the early earlier parts of the century and now where it is very critical.

In Britain, people tend to assume it's an Americanism if it's something new that they don't like. So when you read those articles in The Telegraph for The Times, or other newspapers with lists of, yo

Brynn Quick speaks with Dr Christian Ilbury about his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide, published by Routledge. The book is an introduction to research on l…

People expect effort, not a token ‘I’m sorry’, but be careful not to over-script your acknowledgment of mistakes