This post is by Amy J. Heineke, Associate Professor of Bilingual and Bicultural Education in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago. In a thought-provoking blog post from 2014, Jal Mehta ...

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

The study of linguistic cognition takes you into the heart of the mind. Cognitive linguists examine the language that we use to tell stories, describe feelings and sensory experiences, collaborate ...

In recent years, language-learning apps, websites, and podcasts have exploded in popularity, promising fun and faster ways to make us fluent. But a new study conducted by UBC English professor Dr.

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Join the national debate on the importance of language learning and help us put languages back on the agenda. Content in this series is financially supported by the British Academy and editorially ...

In today’s global online community, words matter. They matter so much, in fact, that they have given rise to numerous instances of social backlash over the past decade. Even more recently, with ...