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Dr. Walter Edwards is a professor of linguistics at Wayne State University, Michigan, where he teaches courses on African American Vernacular English, sociolinguistics and American dialects. Until Aug. 31, 2022, he was also the director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State. Below are highlights from interviews with The Conversation…

The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable

Girls from across the country were invited to come up with tech solutions to everyday problems they encounter

One of the state’s fastest-growing demographics, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders often lack information in their languages that would make the political process more accessible.

Now four, maths prodigy Jamie Mohr has even grasped the 17 times table despite not being due to start school until next year.

As the BBC turns 100 we should celebrate its extraordinary history as a public service broadcaster bringing news and other programming to audiences around the globe. In 2020-2021 the BBC announced that its World Service achieved its highest-ever audience, with an average of close to 500 million listeners globally each…

NSW schools will soon offer high quality Aboriginal language courses to students as the syllabus undergoes its biggest overhaul in decades.

Linguists have estimated that prior to European settlement, there were 300 Indigenous languages spoken in the U.S.

At the height of his popularity, the comic strip equalled Charles Schulz’s Peanuts for global fame, was syndicated to 1,700 newspapers worldwide and translated into 14 different languages