Paul Baker is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University. His research interests include corpus linguistics, language and gender/sexual identities and critical discourse analysis.
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Where is the Muslim World?
I work in a research centre called CASS, funded by the ESRC, a UK Research Council. Our goal is to look at the use and manipulation of language in British society.
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A brief history of Polari: the curious after-life of the dead language
In early February, the Church of England College expressed regret that in an evening liturgy in Cambridge, God was referred to as the Duchess.