Posts filed under: Linguistics

The Meaning of “Controversial”

Reading Time: < 1 minute Let’s talk about the meaning of ” #controversial“. According to the Cambridge Dictionary: “causing #disagreement or #discussion“. So if you...

Fairclough’s Dialectical-Relational Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis

Reading Time: 5 minutes This is part of a series of summaries to help make sense of ongoing research:  Background to...

How What We Say and Write Has Social Consequences and Vice Versa

Reading Time: 2 minutes This may seem like stating the obvious, however the beauty and bain of our words are that...