Language Does More: Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot? (Language Change)
Does it matter that language changes?
Why does the older generation tend to worry that English is falling apart?
What is phatic language?
Language Does More: The Business of Keeping Up with Internet Culture and Language
How do businesses use analytics to stay on top of evolving internet culture and language?
Does the internet speak its own language? If so, what is it?
In what ways is internet culture indexed in internet language?
Language Does More: Slang
What are some emerging linguistic trends in the workplace, and how do these trends vary by age or position in the company?
Where does slang come from, how do we interpret different people’s uses of slang depending of age, gender, race, and sexuality?
Language Does More: Swearing
What is swearing? Why do humans collectively decide that some words are “bad words”?
How is swearing interpreted differently based on speaker and context? Where does the workplace fit into all of this?
How do younger generations impact swearing norms in the workplace?