In sociology, code switching is when a person alters their speech to conform to different cultural norms. For example, marginalized people may use one way of speaking around their community and ...

The phenomenon of moving in between languages or dialects within the same sentence is becoming more and more prominent – especially in the marketing world. In both linguistic and social spaces, this ...

For people of colour in the UK, certain spaces are more comfortable to exist in than others. If you walk into a pub and you are the only person of colour in there, you might feel the need to make ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Vice President Kamala Harris ruffled some feathers when she appeared to adopt a different tone or ...

“Use your real accent,” my father advised me recently, the day before an important phone call. “What do you mean real accent?” I replied, irritated. “Not the one you use with your friends and Quentin, ...

The popular Comedy Central sketch series Key & Peele will end with the finale of its current season. Series co-creator Keegan-Michael Key revealed in an interview with The Wrap that he and co-star ...