Asantha U Attanayake's first exchanges with me were over e-mail. She was travelling across the Subcontinent to collect and develop materials for her forthcoming book. Her visit to Khulna University in ...

The philosophy of language and propositional attitudes investigates the complex interplay between linguistic structures and the mental states that underpin communication, thought, belief and behaviour ...

Varieng member Elizabeth Peterson, University of Helsinki, has published a book on attitudes toward varieties of English. Making Sense of “Bad English”: An Introduction to Language Attitudes and ...

Language in Society is an international journal of sociolinguistics concerned with language and discourse as aspects of social life. The journal publishes empirical articles of general theoretical, ...

The problem isn’t language, but the attitudes of society I’d like to take issue with Michael Wolff’s assertion regarding the new logo for the Alzheimer’s Society (Letters, DW 4 October) that ‘dementia ...

Legon Journal of the Humanities, Vol. 22 (2011), pp. 71-91 (21 pages) This paper investigates the attitudes of some university and tertiary institution students to codeswitching. Respondents were ...