New Blog Post: How do we use language?

Author: Gita Bhutani
Date: 27th April 2018

There are probably a million and one ways to say something. But how do we decide how to say something?

How we speak to our family and friends is often different to how we speak to people at work. At work, we may speak differently to different audiences – our service users/patients, our colleagues, our managers. We also use jargon – this can be helpful in precise communication with someone who speaks the same jargon. In academic contexts, we can use less frequently used words and express ourselves in a different more complex way with longer and more complex sentences too. This may support the clear expression of complex ideas (or it may not).

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