Tag Archives: Language and Linguistics
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Asya M. Pereltsvaig
We all use language every day: not only to communicate thoughts and ideas to other people, but also for our internal monologue and, some might argue, for organizing thought. But what are the inner workings of human language and what makes it different from animal communication? Professional linguists study these questions in their finest detail, […]
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Vered Shwartz
Imagine waking up in the morning. You read your emails with the morning coffee and use Gmail’s autocomplete feature to compile the answers. Before leaving the house, you ask Siri for the weather forecast, to decide whether you need to bring your jacket. Later in the day, you interact with a customer service chatbot about […]
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Stephen C. Levinson
Nebulae are those star nurseries familiar through the fabulous Hubble images like the one above. Languages are also born – indeed every language is reborn, quite literally in the nursery. In my new book The Interaction Engine, just like the astronomers I turn the focus not onto language itself but onto the systems that gave […]
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Britta Schneider
Languages appear to us as self-evident truths in the world. Until recently, the definition of what is a language seemed to be relatively straightforward: a language is what people from the same culture, living in the same territory, use to communicate with each other. We find its rules documented in dictionaries and grammar books. In […]
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Lívia Körtvélyessy
A new book that reveals the sound-painted secrets of 124 languages. Boom… plop! Woof! Vroom! Sound familiar? Like something out of a comic book, baby talk, or a cartoon? Not quite! These “funny little noises” are actually a serious linguistic topic – and they have a lot to tell us about how languages work, how […]
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Patriann Smith
In July 2024, amidst the global attraction of a Paris 2024 Olympics with eugenicist roots historically designed in part to prove the athletic superiority of Europeans racialized as white, Aya Nakamura, the then most streamed female Francophone pop artist in the world, found herself “at the center of France’s culture wars.” A single-parent immigrant mother […]
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Daria Dayter, Sofia Rüdiger
People will always do what they want to do. Right? Well, not exactly. We can easily think about situations in which we tried to change someone else’s mind: begging parents for a toy, asking a reluctant friend to come to a dinner party, or making a case for your boss to grant you a few […]
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Yaron Matras
It’s a cliché that Britain’s power as a nation is linked to the English language, so much so that prime minister Theresa May assured the public that Brexit would be a success because “our language is the language of the world” and Boris Johnson complained that there were “too many people in our cities who […]
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Asya M. Pereltsvaig
We all use language every day: not only to communicate thoughts and ideas to other people, but also for our internal monologue and, some might argue, for organizing thought. But what are the inner workings of human language and what makes it different from animal communication? Professional linguists study these questions in their finest detail, […]
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Vered Shwartz
Imagine waking up in the morning. You read your emails with the morning coffee and use Gmail’s autocomplete feature to compile the answers. Before leaving the house, you ask Siri for the weather forecast, to decide whether you need to bring your jacket. Later in the day, you interact with a customer service chatbot about […]
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Stephen C. Levinson
Nebulae are those star nurseries familiar through the fabulous Hubble images like the one above. Languages are also born – indeed every language is reborn, quite literally in the nursery. In my new book The Interaction Engine, just like the astronomers I turn the focus not onto language itself but onto the systems that gave […]
Read More
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Britta Schneider
Languages appear to us as self-evident truths in the world. Until recently, the definition of what is a language seemed to be relatively straightforward: a language is what people from the same culture, living in the same territory, use to communicate with each other. We find its rules documented in dictionaries and grammar books. In […]
Read More
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Lívia Körtvélyessy
A new book that reveals the sound-painted secrets of 124 languages. Boom… plop! Woof! Vroom! Sound familiar? Like something out of a comic book, baby talk, or a cartoon? Not quite! These “funny little noises” are actually a serious linguistic topic – and they have a lot to tell us about how languages work, how […]
Read More
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Patriann Smith
In July 2024, amidst the global attraction of a Paris 2024 Olympics with eugenicist roots historically designed in part to prove the athletic superiority of Europeans racialized as white, Aya Nakamura, the then most streamed female Francophone pop artist in the world, found herself “at the center of France’s culture wars.” A single-parent immigrant mother […]
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Daria Dayter, Sofia Rüdiger
People will always do what they want to do. Right? Well, not exactly. We can easily think about situations in which we tried to change someone else’s mind: begging parents for a toy, asking a reluctant friend to come to a dinner party, or making a case for your boss to grant you a few […]
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Yaron Matras
It’s a cliché that Britain’s power as a nation is linked to the English language, so much so that prime minister Theresa May assured the public that Brexit would be a success because “our language is the language of the world” and Boris Johnson complained that there were “too many people in our cities who […]
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