Morana Lukač
Workshop: The Role of Narrativity in the Study of Violence
Stories make us human. They help us make sense of things, from complex ones such as quantum physics to our seemingly simple everyday...
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Morana Lukač
- Jul 20, 2022
- 4 min
Looking back at SS24
There are a number of firsts associated with the 24th Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS24) in Ghent (13-16 July 2022), including it being...
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Morana Lukač
- Jul 25, 2021
- 9 min
And that's a wrap! The #GenderChallenge Conference (18-20 July 2021)
As some of you may know, the past year has been quite eventful for me as I moved countries and took a new position as a postdoctoral...
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Morana Lukač
- Aug 16, 2020
- 3 min
Fake News and the Coronavirus
The time in which we live has been described as the ‘post truth era’ years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary...
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Morana Lukač
- Jun 12, 2020
- 3 min
The Power of Words
In the last weeks, the Black Lives Matter movement has taken centre-stage throughout media outlets. On 2 June, people across the US and...
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Morana Lukač
- Apr 2, 2020
- 2 min
“Hamsteren” again
A few weeks ago, when writing about the vocabulary that marked the coronavirus pandemic, I mentioned that the Sign Language of the...
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Morana Lukač
- Mar 22, 2020
- 2 min
The Language of the Coronavirus: Memes
The word “meme” was first coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his first bookThe Selfish Gene (1976) in an attempt...
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Morana Lukač
- Mar 19, 2020
- 2 min
The Language of the Coronavirus: The War Metaphors
War metaphors have long been present in political rhetoric, not to discuss actual military conflicts, but actions against perceived...
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Morana Lukač
- Mar 17, 2020
- 2 min
The Language of the Coronavirus: A Timeline
It's fascinating to observe the speed with which we are acquiring the language and concepts relating to the coronavirus. I'm still...
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Morana Lukač
- Mar 2, 2020
- 2 min
Data’s Double Life
The Latin loanword data seems to be leading a double life in English usage. Whereas most speakers will use it as a singular/collective...
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Morana Lukač
- Jan 14, 2020
- 2 min
Dutch grammar grievances
As the first semester is coming to its end, I’ve been taking another look at some of the work the cohort of LU students taking...
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Morana Lukač
- Jan 4, 2020
- 2 min
Who speaks Straattaal?
As I was reading KLM's in-flight magazine this week, I came across an article on a Dutch street fashion brand Patta. It made me pause as...
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