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With wall-to-wall advertising from retailers and increasing mentions in the media, we would expect to see a rise in the frequency of materialistic words in the recent data. What is surprising is how prominent the influx of these words has been and how they now account for such a significant proportion of the words used in association with Christmas. If that appears a depressing finding, we can take heart from the fact that Father Christmas, tree, cards and decorations remain amongst the most common language associations with the holiday season.
Laura Grimes, Language Researcher at Cambridge University Press
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Michael McGarvey, Director UK Schools at Cambridge University Press
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Mandy Hill
Their findings show that 'cope with' is not uncommon in the English language, contrary to claims made by some students. I
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Cambridge linguistics study confirms the growing commercialism of Christmas

Santa, sales, shopping and spending all feature in top Christmas wordsThis year’s Black Friday is set to be the biggest yet and as shoppers gear up for the busiest shopping day of the year, a linguistics study from Cambridge University Press reveals that the way we talk about Christmas is also becoming increasingly materialistic. The researchers have reviewed more than 2 billion words from their English Language Corpus and compared the language we use about Christmas today with data collected in the 1990s finding that the language we use demonstrates an increasingly commercial attitude

Help your students unlock their potential with a free trial of Edmodo Insights this Autumn Term

Take the guessing out of assessing with Edmodo Insights – a formative assessment toolset that empowers teachers with valuable progression data to improve student learning.LONDON, England (Sep. 22, 2015) – Cambridge University Press (CUP), the publishing business of the University of Cambridge and one of the world’s leading educational publishers, together with Edmodo, the world’s leading global education network, today announced a UK launch of Edmodo Insights, a formative assessment toolset designed to help teachers, departments, and schools gain actionable perspective into pupil learning

THE AUTHORITATIVE SERIES ON ASEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY INTEGRATION THROUGH LAW: THE ROLE OF LAW AND THE RULE OF LAW IN ASEAN INTEGRATION

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New CUP open access policy 'prevents double-dipping'

Cambridge University Press is launching a policy to prevent charging both authors and subscribers for open access journal content (so-called double-dipping). Matthew Day, head of open and data publishing at Cambridge University Press, said; ‘We believe that double-dipping is wrong and we want to be clear about how we are preventing it.’ The new policy discounts 2016 subscription prices for journals that have received open access (OA) article processing charges (APCs) from authors in the last full journal volume (that is, in 2014). If the fraction of OA articles in a journal was at

Cambridge host English textbook seminar at NATE with series authorshost English textbook seminar at NATE with series authors

The UK Schools Team at Cambridge University Press will be hosting a free seminar on ‘Making the most of textbooks in the English classroom’ at NATE this week. At the event at the Hilton in Newcastle, Gateshead, the team are hosting a seminar on the value of textbooks for English teachers. The seminar will share tips and advice on supporting teachers through the curriculum changes and enhancing students’ learning, understanding and enjoyment of English. Panellists include Dr Marcello Giovanelli (series author of the Cambridge A/AS Level English), Imelda Pilgrim (series editor for

Students should have been able to 'cope with' exam, according to researchers at Cambridge University Press.

Over 12,000 French students have signed a petition about an "incomprehensible" English baccalaureate exam. Many of the complaints focused on the use of the expression 'cope with', which was used in a question about Ian McEwan's novel Atonement. Some expressed concern that the expression is not very common, and many students felt that it was simply too difficult. In order to settle the argument, researchers at Cambridge University Press have looked into the term using the Cambridge English Corpus, a multi-billion word collection of English texts.Their findings show that 'cope with'

ICFO and Cambridge University Press announce the release of 'The Wonders of Light'

ICFO and Cambridge University Press publish a book dedicated to discovering the amazing powers of lightICFO- the Institute of Photonic Sciences and Cambridge University Press announce the launch of The Wonders of Light, a book that dives into the realm of photonics enabling the reader to see, learn and discover the amazing things that light is capable of accomplishing. The release of this book coincides with the celebration of 2015 International Year of Light proclaimed by UNESCO. It is a highly visual book with a modern, eye-catching design, and with simple explanations of high-tech,

The Great Charter and Global Religion

To mark the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, Mark Hill QC, the co-editor of Magna Carta, Religion and the Rule of Law, discusses what Magna Carta means for religions worldwide today.King John sealed the Magna Carta of 1215 ‘from reverence for God and for the salvation of our soul and those of all our ancestors and heirs, for the honour of God and the exaltation of Holy Church and the reform of our realm’. Archbishop Stephen Langton was resolute in the promotion of the Church’s interests, most conspicuously in clause 1 itself: ‘In the first place we have granted to God, and by this our

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