First one of the new run will be on stylistics. Coming very soon...
And we've also got a discussion of the recently published paper, 'Learn Jakaikan in 2 Minutes' by @johannagerwin.bsky.social before we go to the source and talk to Johanna about her paper and the ways in which MLE has been enregistered in the UK press - perfect for some Lang Discourses revision.
We've got a Lang in the News on apostrophes and how these little marks stand for so much more than just punctuation. We've talk through a really good student answer to a P2Q3 question on texts about MLE.
It's going to be a useful one for students working on language change and for anyone looking at discourses around technology and young people's use of it.
And you can read more about the work of Les Linguistes Atterrées here: www.tract-linguistes.org
« Nous, linguistes, sommes proprement atterrées par l’ampleur de la diffusion d’idées fausses sur la langue française, par l’absence trop courante, dans les programmes scolaires comme dans l’espace mé...