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

Global Englishes in language education encompasses the study and teaching of English as a pluricentric, international means of communication rather than a single standard variety. This field ...

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 ...

One way of predicting the future is to look back at the past. The global role English plays today as a lingua franca – used as a means of communication by speakers of different languages – has ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shakespeare’s Englishes, by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton Peter J. Smith enjoys a powerful analysis of how the work of the Bard cuts through simplistic notions of national identity Published on October 4, ...