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In honour of the 10th anniversary of Lingthusiasm, we’re launching the Linguistics Zine Challenge: make or share a linguistics zine and tell us about it by the end ...

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Narratives about smaller languages often focus on the death and endangerment sides of the story. There’s generally less on the social and political reasons why some languages are favoured at the expense of ot...

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We’ve used the metaphor of ...

I’ve been doing more and more work over the years on those gestures that have a specific form and name, which are known as emblems. In all of that work I kept thinking about how little documentation there is of these gestures in Australia. I am very grateful that my proposed project to document these better has been funded as an

This research article is the first publication from Lisa Gronich, and comes from their honours project thesis. Lisa proposed this topic, and it was really fun to do linguistic analysis on public engagement materials. Lisa found there were common tropes in how people talked about the innovative use of singular ‘they’ for non-binary referents, not all of which were useful for m...