Language learning is often a daunting prospect. Many of us wish we had learned a language to a higher level at school. But ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Language helps define the way people think about themselves and their culture. It does so by shaping the way we think, feel ...

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 ...

This Pew Research Center analysis explores attitudes on the importance of language, customs and traditions, birthplace, and religion as components of national identity in 23 countries in North America ...

A new study reveals an often-overlooked process in language learning: children frequently begin by grasping whole phrases and only later identify the individual components within them. This ...

As language users, we have a lot of flexibility in the way we use words. Only the rules of grammar might constrain the order of words used and consequently change the meaning of a sentence. The ...

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 ...

Salvador Ordorica is the CEO of The Spanish Group LLC, a first-class international translation service that translates over 90 languages. As our world becomes increasingly interconnected, being able ...

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 ...

Dots on the maps in this piece represent, among other things, efforts to revitalize a language as well as communities of speakers. Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the ...