The evolution and potential of linked aspects of the electronic revolution that could radically change perceptions of the printed word

An expansion on some grammatical points raised by Alan S. Kaye in ‘Is English diglossic?’ (ET28, Oct91).

IN SAMUEL SELVON's The Lonely Londoners (set in the 1950s), Galahad, a Trinidadian immigrant into Britain, is talking with an English woman, Daisy. After their first date they are sipping tea in his basement bedsitter:

‘You get that raise the foreman was promising you?’ Galahad ask, for something to say.

DENNIS BARON looks at a recent fad in American telephonics

A report on the background and nature of the general English usage of the island nation of Singapore

In this issue, DALE ROBERTS considers a range of recent, especially American usages.

An analysis of the relationships between design and text, to show how the physical shape given to information can affect its impact.

In this issue, THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY lists some neologisms that do not yet appear in mainstream dictionaries. Readers' comments and additions are invited.

A discussion of the history, status, major features and general properties of English as it is used alongside Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu and other southern African languages

THOMAS M. PAIREDAY lists some more neologisms that do not yet appear in mainstream dictionaries. Readers' comments and additions are invited.

In this issue, DALE ROBERTS considers a range of recent, especially American usages.

A consideration of how changes in usage come about and whether such changes can be caught and commented on as they occur

Following from Tom McArthur's ‘Models of English’ (ET32, Oct 92), a consideration of such models and the singularity or plurality of the language(s)

The text of a talk given by TOM McARTHUR to a conference of academics, civil servants and politicians in Amsterdam in October 1992, introduced by an account of the circumstances leading to the conference, by Dr CARLOS GUSSENHOVEN of the Catholic University of Nijmegen, and Secretary of the VCML (see below), which organized the conference.

A lexicographer questions the usefulness of phonetic symbols as aids to pronunciation in dictionaries, and offers an alternative approach

PETER BARRY considers the half-hidden agenda behind the names given to shoes in Britain

A practical demonstration of how the language of statutes can be made more accessible without losing its legal soul

ROGER BOWERS, Director of Professional Services, the British Council, gave the following talk about the prospects of British ELTas a ‘knowledge-based industry’ at the BBC English 50th Anniversary Forum, entitled ‘Fifty years on’, held during the 1993 IATEFL conference in Swansea, Wales.