In Verbal Hygiene, Deborah Cameron takes a serious look at popular attitudes towards
language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use. Instead of …

The thesis of this essay is that linguistic anthropology is not the study of language.
Rather,“language” functions as a permanently problematic, if indispensable, object for …

Scholars have long argued that technical editing should be viewed as a rhetorical practice in
which copy editors take “a situational approach to each individual task”(Buehler, 1980/2003 …

Abstract Number systems constitute one of the major domains in which language is seen as
a source of variation in cognition. The notion that the features of a language's numeral …

Diferentes visões do conhecimento fracionário emergem de origens distintas e implicam
consequências variadas para o ensino e a aprendizagem da matemática. Ressaltando …

Since the inception of modern linguistic study in the early twentieth century, prescriptivism
has largely been ignored as an area worthy of serious linguistic investigation. However …

A rich tradition of studies on languages with differential object marking (DOM) is available in
the literature. Languages like Spanish or Romanian are frequently cited in discussions …

This article discusses the earliest attestations and history of various English indefinite
hyperbolic numerals such as zillion, jillion, and umpteen, identifying them as a previously …

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, and the growing number of studies on
“sanism”(or psychiatric oppression), this paper revisits outstanding methodological concerns …

This conceptual paper examines the under-representation of Black male educators in
middle and high schools in the United States. The examination starts by tracing the …