Large majorities in the 21 countries where we fielded this question say being able to speak their country’s most common language is important to national identity. And majorities in more than ...

Emergentist vs. Nativist Views Consider the Role of Genetic and Evolutionary Forces on Linguistic Development Source: Image generated by OpenAI's DALL·E At the end of the twentieth century, a battle ...

Immigrants are more likely to be seen as unique individuals with their own thoughts and intentions, rather than assuming they all share the same group beliefs, when the media describes them with ...

How and why languages differ. The influential linguist M. A. K. Holliday, in his 1978 book Language as a Social Semiotic, included a diagram labeled “the domains of language and their relation to ...

Every time we speak, we're improvising. "Humans possess a remarkable ability to talk about almost anything, sometimes putting ...

A recent publication by a Union government panel has generated widespread discussion in academic and linguistic circles. The ...