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An Australian citizen who migrated from Lebanon, Joseph Assaf has been described as `the guru of multicultural marketing´. He tells how he ...

Martin Grondin manages the LOLcat Bible translation project. LOLcat, or LOLspeak, is the language that is pictured out of the mouths of ...

Another word is required to describe a natural phenomenon, a particular wind that blows in South Australia, especially given the ...

Adam Jacot de Boinod now has a third book on wonderful words, this time from the English language, to prove his point that, 'The English ...

With the settlement, in 1609, of New Netherland centred on New Amsterdam, which is now New York, America has a significant Dutch past. For ...

The amateur philologist and Queen's Counsel Julian Burnside reads a selection of excerpts from the new, revised and expanded edition of his ...

In many languages, the names used for adults are based on the names of their oldest child. Carol Priestley tells about how naming ...

Proceeding from the mythical moment when the confusion of a multitude of tongues began, in the Biblical tower of Babel, a query into the ...

As an `amateur philologist´, Queen's Counsel Julian Burnside, makes a case for using language that is true to our meaning, rather than the ...

Valerie Yule makes a case for all of us to, in free-form fashion, use our capacities to communicate internationally, and create for ...

Whereas the mission stations set up for the settlement of Australian Aborigines typically resulted in the loss of Indigenous languages, it ...

A version of Monash University´s annual Language and Society Centre public lecture, delivered on Thursday, October 8, from Professor Kate ...