The vocabulary of a given language is constantly changing: new words emerge, old words “die,” i.e., they are no longer actively used and eventually no longer understood. This process varies according to the type of word: new nouns, adjectives and verbs emerge quickly and spontaneously. Other types of words, such as articles or numeral words,…
When I wrote the blog post “Linguistics and Linguists in Film” over a year ago, I thought that for a brief period we would have to confine our lives to the living room, bedroom, and kitchen. Now we still can’t travel without restrictions, and those of us who wanted to do projects on the ground…
These are not so much films that focus on a linguist as a person (e.g. Still Alice, 2014), but films whose subject is language or linguistics: Pygmalion (1938), My Fair Lady (1964), Pygmalion (1983): about pronunciation, social status and feelings Ball of Fire (1941): Should lexicographers also include colloquial language in their dictionaries … and…