What is language, why do we use it, and how did it evolve? These are questions that language researchers are still working to answer. From a basic standpoint, a language is a shared system of symbols ...

Views Deputy Mikaela Georgi argues that digital language can prevent students from building academic writing skills.

Throughout human history, there have been many instances where two populations came into contact—especially in the past few ...

The genre of migrant autofiction, especially coming-of-age work, is blooming, but Raaza Jamshed’s book stands out.

Mesopotamian scribes wrote about feeling anger in their feet and love in their liver. Learn about the similarities and ...

As this clay tablet reveals, every form of writing, literature, history, mathematics, commerce, astronomy was invented to fight forgetfulness. Umberto Eco, in one of his essays (The Future of Literacy ...

To facilitate state necropolitics, U.S. military culture is saturated by “kill talk” among those who serve as instruments of combat. The defining feature of kill talk is its refusal to acknowledge the ...

Jonathan Rauch on the “constitution of knowledge,” disinformation’s dangers, and why reality always wins. Plus: What a J. D.

David Byrne has been a part of the pop-culture bedrock for nearly 50 years — so long that it’s sometimes easy to take him for ...

When a waiter at one of their favorite restaurants in Indiana started using sign language, it took him by surprise.

Professor Stephen Friedman of the University of Cape Town testified in defence of Malema and the EFF, stating that what Malema had said did not constitute hate speech. Friedman was found by the court ...