Assistant Professor Ai Taniguchi interviewed for CTV News

UTM's Department of Language Studies Assistant Professor Ai Taniguchi was recently interviewed for CTV News on how the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic created many new words and phrases that are now common in our everyday life. The news article, The new words that helping people cope with the pandemic, investigates how the pandemic resulted in creating new terms to reflect on how people are feeling during these hard times. The article also discusses how the pandemic resulted in normalizing racist linguistic behaviour.