I don't know about you but I have been wondering about what linguistic change has been occuring during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you're like me then you're in luck as there has been a faculty publication entitled "Disruptions due to COVID-19: using mixed methods to identify factors and influencing language maintenance and shift".
Maya Ravindranath Abrahian (University of Rochester) worked with Naomi Nagy (Faculty), Katharina Pabst (PhD Candidate) and Vidhya Elango (MA) to examine principles of language maintenance and shifts during the COVID-19 lockdowns amongst people still involved in critical acts of identity creation; university students. This study is used to learn how lockdown is affecting young people's language ecologies and attitudes.
A very interesting sign of the times paper!
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