Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

The Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University offers various courses in linguistics. Linguistics is often called "the science of language," the study of the human ...

Cindy Santisteban has applied knowledge from her double major in linguistics and Spanish to jobs in e-commerce, marketing localization and, above, teaching English as a second language in Cartagena, ...

I talked recently with Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and other books about language and the mind, about his new book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the ...

According to some neuroscientists the linguistic and the motor systems are strictly “tied up”. That is to say, for instance, that to understand the word “drinking” our brain sets in motion the same ...

Language, like the society we live in and the people who inhabit it, is constantly evolving. There comes a point in all of our lives when we realize this firsthand: Maybe a younger sibling or cousin ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...