Morana Lukač, PhD

Stories make us human. They help us make sense of things, from complex ones such as quantum physics to our seemingly simple everyday...

There are a number of firsts associated with the 24th Sociolinguistics Symposium (SS24) in Ghent (13-16 July 2022), including it being...

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...

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...

In the last weeks, the Black Lives Matter movement has taken centre-stage throughout media outlets. On 2 June, people across the US and...

A few weeks ago, when writing about the vocabulary that marked the coronavirus pandemic, I mentioned that the Sign Language of the...

The word “meme” was first coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his first bookThe Selfish Gene (1976) in an attempt...

War metaphors have long been present in political rhetoric, not to discuss actual military conflicts, but actions against perceived...

It's fascinating to observe the speed with which we are acquiring the language and concepts relating to the coronavirus. I'm still...

The Latin loanword data seems to be leading a double life in English usage. Whereas most speakers will use it as a singular/collective...

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...

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...