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’s cultural cross-pollination. Late last week, BuzzFeed published an article on the phrase “sksksksksk,” which was . . . about as silly as you’d imagine. The long and short of its argument?

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 ...

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 ...

and then rewards white people’s appropriation of the black speech form. That’s fucked. Is appropriating words and phrases from Black English putting on linguistic blackface? Again, it’s not my place ...

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.

The wearing of sombreros at tequila-themed parties triggered — to speak the language of the exquisitely sensitive — the anti-appropriation constabulary at Bowdoin College. Oberlin College’s ...

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 ...

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 ...