Can we joke about cancer?*
For some, joking about cancer is completely out of bounds. Cancer, after all, is no laughing matter. The problem is that, sometimes, it...
"I was so depressed yesterday..." - or were you?
I was recently chatting to a Vice.com editor who asked why it feels wrong when people use mental health terms in a casual, perhaps...
Sylvia Plath and the linguistics of depression
This post is to celebrate the publication of my first book... People who experience mental disorders like depression are the foremost...
"Battling" cancer or "going through it"? It's not that simple
How people talk or write about something can tell us as much about what they think and feel as the content of what they're actually...
What’s in a name?
“What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” (Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II)...
Can corpus linguistics help with branding?
Generally, when you think about the types of people involved in branding, copy writing or marketing, you probably don’t think of...
