How Identity Drives Language Change

Name: How Identity Drives Language Change
Start: 2026-03-23T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-03-23T15:00:00+00:00
Location: Woolf Institute

Woolf Institute

Highlights

Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm

1 hour

Woolf Institute

Free Tickets Available

Date & Location

Mon, 23 Mar, 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm (GMT+00:00)

Woolf Institute

Madingley Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom

About the event

How Identity Drives Language Change

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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