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A Triple Whammy

I attended a conference recently and at least two topics made me wonder. One was on plagiarism and the other one on standards of language, formal vs. informal. The presentations were both well and good, interesting and nuanced. Both had discussion extended into the hows and whys, which made things interesting. I could have done […]

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What’s (a) language anyway?

So far I’ve been looking into landscape research with focus more or less on landscape, the core concept. I’ve briefly touched on language and linguistics in connection to landscape, but unlike with landscape, I haven’t really had a look under the hood. This time I’ll do just that. I’ll start a bit differently from the […]