Machine learning techniques have become very popular for a number of text classification tasks, from spam filters to sentiment analysis to topic classification. In this paper, we will apply a number of machine learning techniques to classifying text by the political ideology of the speaker (i.e. Republican or Democrat). This is a potentially useful application of text classification, as when re...

Preface: what linguists have made of it Most standard textbooks and historical accounts state that linguistics as a modern science started with the publication of Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de Linguistique Générale in 1916. In this posthumous compilation of course notes, Saussure outlined a new and fully scientific discipline, the object of which would be langue: the stable and structural pa...

Hate speech and fringe ideologies are social phenomena that thrive on-line. Members of the political and religious fringe are able to propagate their ideas via the Internet with less effort than in traditional media. In this article, we attempt to use linguistic cues such as the occurrence of certain parts of speech in order to distinguish the language of fringe groups from strictly informative...

In his most recent books, Piketty offers a global history of inequality in its economic, social, political, and intellectual dimensions, arguing that is moved by the struggle ideologies. To take part this battle ideas, he conceives new ideal model society, ‘participative socialism’, as an egalitarian alternative to dominant neoproprietarian ideology dangerous resurgence nationalism populism. Th...

This qualitative, exploratory research study is positioned within the field of Family Language Policy (FLP). Contextualised in bilingual Malta, where Maltese majority language, inquires into effects a plurilingual family language programme on ideologies English-speaking families. The was followed by four such families over four-week period, during which data were collected via participants’ wee...

The notion of (anti) racism in applied linguistics general and language education particular has gained considerable attention by scholars the fields. Contesting dominance monolingualism education, linguists have become eager to resuscitate this notion, often implicitly averring that long been insidiously penetrating field surreptitiously operating under so-called raciolinguistic ideologies. It...