Judgements of politeness go beyond language and culture – they are also deeply tied to emotion and moral intuition.

I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.

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A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 years ago.

University of Delhi (DU) is preparing to introduce a new discipline-specific elective titled ‘Linguistic Anthropology’ for students pursuing the second year of the master’s programme in Anthropology.

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...

A high school teacher describes how she teaches her students that disciplinary literacy is more than ‘fancy’ vocabulary.

In the first part of her interview on the It's Probably Not Rocket Science podcast, University of New Mexico linguist Erin Wilkinson discussed how ...

Stuttering is more than just struggling to "get the words out." It's a developmental disorder affecting speech fluency caused ...

New research demonstrates that preclinical cognitive decline may be identifiable through subtle language shifts. An analysis ...

Abdulsalam Abubakar Sudaisi, who hopes to study Mass Communication, described the programme as rewarding. “The remedial programme has been wonderful. The school environment is okay, and with my little ...