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Tag Archives: attitudes survey
Interactive TeamWork survey
On 28 October 2022, TeamWork will be organising a workshop session, called “The mysteries of brackets and old grammar chestnuts”. For more information as well as to register for this event, see the TeamWork website. One of the workshops will … Continue reading
Blaming the media?
As part of our interactive feature series in English Today, the latest and ninth article has been published today in which I discuss attitudes towards the role of the media in language variation and change. In my online questionnaire, I asked informants … Continue reading
Posted in announcement, polls and surveys
Tagged attitudes, attitudes survey, British, media, prescriptivism
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Key player media?
Since I am particularly interested in the media’s role in the later stages of the standardisation process of English, I would like to invite you to participate in a brief survey which also serves as a starting point for a … Continue reading
Posted in polls and surveys
Tagged attitudes survey, British, language use, media, newspapers
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Literally, too big a fuss about nothing – the latest English Today interactive feature
The sixth installment in the Bridging the Unbridgeable series of interactive features was published in the June 2015 issue of the English Today journal. In this feature, we ask readers to contribute to investigating the issue of the non-literal, intensifier use of … Continue reading
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Tagged attitudes survey, English Today, language change, literally, pet peeves, usage problems
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Attitudes survey: we need you!
So far, 589 people have filled in my Attitudes Survey, which is fantastic: thank you all! But I would like to have more responses, not because I’m greedy, but to make for greater representativeness of what people – not only … Continue reading
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