I’m guessing that I’m not such as old a dog as I think — I’ve been learning some new tricks! But … they’re the same old tricks, only different. Language, for example. Lately, I’ve had cause to look ...

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...

If it is hard for you to understand the difference between a language and a dialect-consider this. Dialects are the siblings of a family known as Language. With common surnames and even some physical ...

Traditionally the relation between philosophy and religion has been one either of identity, as in the early Middle Ages, or of hostility, as in the Age of Reason. In the eighteenth and nineteenth ...

No person could reasonably claim to have the answer to the meaning of life. An even more daring claim is to know what meaning is at all. What is the meaning of these very words? Of language as a whole ...

The goal of my video project for the course Language in US Society, embedded above, was to emphasize how the meaning of words -especially slang - have adapted beyond having only one meaning through ...

Is the meaning of love truly universal? It might depend on the language you speak, a new study finds. Scientists who searched out semantic patterns in nearly 2,500 languages from all over the world ...

I’m guessing that I’m not such as old a dog as I think — I’ve been learning some new tricks! But … they’re the same old tricks, only different. Language, for example. Lately, I’ve had cause to look ...