Language in Cultural Context

Growing up in Britain, Mr. Clarke and his friends became obsessed with skateboarding in the 1970s by reading magazines that glorified California skate culture.

Alligators are mentioned about every two minutes in this show, often in a hunting context.

Texts are little mirrors that reflect cultural values.

"English has taken its place as the world's lingua franca, but it's not pushing out other languages."

The Indian and Mediterranean diets may not seem easy bedfellows, but there has been a certain convergence in recent years.

A minority in classrooms, lecture theatres and labs, these young women are exposed to gender stereotypes and unconscious bias from teaching staff.

Focusing on topics such as audience, purpose, and word choice, writing assignments are now integrated to complement and deepen the learning process. Science Magazine (Aug 29, 2013)

Not so long ago, the Federal Reserve tried to obscure its operations behind a fog of jargon and euphemisms.

Our idiolect is like our linguistic fingerprint, which reveals where we come from, whom we socialise with and what we aspire to become.

An expert in computer linguistics, the professor developed software to analyse and compare texts.

After their divergence, there was little gene flow among Native American groups, especially in South America.

Though he spent more than 50 years living and working in the United States, he retained his English accent and habits all his life.