How Identity Drives Language Change

Mon Mar 23 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC+00:00

Woolf Institute | Cambridge

Woolf Institute
Publisher/HostWoolf Institute
How Identity Drives Language Change
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The Woolf Institute is proud to host this talk as part of the Cambridge Festival
About this Event

Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner will discuss how identity drives language change. This talk will investigate the most important factors of language change, how much we are all influenced by linguistic role models, why different generations sound different from one another, and how social groups segregate by speaking in a particular way.

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Woolf Institute, Madingley Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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