This can lead to an embarrassing backfiring of linguistic appropriation, revealing that a language user is in fact outside an influential community. One of my undergraduate students drew my ...

It is cultural appropriation to use the language of the deaf community to make money for your institution without including deaf people in the instruction and provision of those classes.

Several other cases of linguistic appropriation have recently occurred in U.S. politics. A good example is “Nevertheless, she persisted.” Republican senator Mitch McConnell first used it to ...

language, and/or customs resembling those of another person or group. After going over basic terms and definitions associated with cultural appropriation and sharing some examples, explain to ...

Simply put: It's Black linguistic appropriation. "The divorcing of Black people from the way that we talk is really just another way of liking what Black people do, but not liking Black people ...

Appropriation also tends to involve some misuse ... Anyone can make a grammatical error, particularly in a language that isn’t their first. All the same, taking a little extra time to research ...

So, it’s more productive to think about cultural appropriation in terms of relations of power. For example, in South Africa, Afrikaner nationalists appropriated the local Kaaps language to ...

Although Disney applied for the trademark in 1994 and was approved in 2003, an activist from Zimbabwe is arguing that a culture’s language ... “The appropriation of something you have no ...

At least it was until I found myself caught in an online debate about the cultural appropriation of sign language. That’s a big sentence, so let’s break it down. American singer Banks posted a ...

Social media users, including those from the Asian American community, accused the founders of cultural appropriation, disrespectful language and ignorance toward the game’s cultural ...