Till the end of July you can register for the master’s course in interlinguistics, combined with information management, at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Here, Esperanto is used alongside English to teach students from the entire world: interlinguistic...

Using text corpora to answer legal questions has grown popular, but linguists are concerned that judges aren’t trained well enough to use these tools properly. This article describes how a judge in Florida used a corpus to decide that face masks do not count as...

You are invited to take part in the 12th “Esperanto Connecting People” writing contest with a story in Esperanto entitled “What is happiness for me?” The competition, organized in Białystok, is open to adults and people over the age of 15. It aims to: spread...

In June the UK’s University of Huddersfield announced 37 redundancies in the School of Arts and Humanities, and there is a risk that no linguistics faculty will remain. Linguistics at Huddersfield is known worldwide for its work in stylistics, corpus linguistics,...

On 18 June, teachers at a primary school in the city Taiyuan in China’s Shanxi Province held an Esperanto course in the kindergarten of a local residential area. The children learned how to say “happy father’s day” and really enjoyed the course. La 18-an de junio...

This article discusses the real-world consequences of what it calls the “linguistic contortionism” increasingly used in current English to avoid the word “woman” and associated accusations of transphobia. Ĉi tiu artikolo en la angla diskutas la sekvojn por la reala...

As our primary form of communication, language is the cornerstone of how we interact with the world. However, for marginalized communities like the LGBTQ+ community, language has a long politically charged history that continues to influence how individuals and the...

From the playground to the workplace, people from immigrant communities in the UK say accent-based racism impacts their daily lives. It’s called linguistic racism, and is directed at people who speak in ways considered to be non-standard or “foreign-sounding”. It is...

The article “Exploring the grammar of othering and antagonism as enacted in terrorist discourse: verbal aggression in service of radicalisation”, recently published in the journal Nature, examines the role of certain grammatical choices in the practice of “othering”...

This article on the website of the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics summarizes the history of Esperanto in China and looks to the future: “If China continues to grow, there will likely be a clash between the Chinese and English languages. When that...

The University of Tours, France hosted a seminar on artificial languages once a week from the end of April until early June, including presentations by Sabine Fiedler (“The Esperanto speech community: sociological, ideological, cultural and linguistic aspects”),...

165 years ago, the 11th of June saw the birth of Antoni Grabowski (1857–1921), a Polish chemist, terminologist, polyglot, Volapükist and Esperantist; the first president of the Polish Esperanto Association (1908–21), secretary of the first World Esperanto Congress...

The article “Christians, Jews and Muslims, we all inhabit the same sea. On the etymology of Europe” by Davide Astori (on pages 23–38 of issue 9/2021 of the journal Occhialì) has a section about Zamenhof’s idea that Esperanto could serve as a bridge religion. La...

The World Esperanto Youth Organization (TEJO) in collaboration with the Council of Europe is organizing two international seminars “Exploring Inclusivity: Achieving truly inclusive societies” and “Languages for Democracy: Revitalization of pluralistic democracies and...

At a major conference to be held from 19 to 23 July, over 450 scholars will gather to present papers and to engage in progressive discussion on European and Mediterranean linguistic anthropology, language and society, sociolinguistics and related fields. The theme is...

This recent journalistic article says that according to the affection exchange theory, proposed by researcher Kory Floyd, specific vocal behaviours signal affection. These include the use of a high pitch, exaggerated intonation and a soft voice – traits that happen to...