One of the first things I learnt to say in Dutch was ‘we beat them to death with sticks’. Not exactly standard fare for the first week of language classes, but then again this wasn’t an ordinary ...

The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was the initiative of Bangladesh. It was approved at the 1999 UNESCO General Conference and has been observed throughout the world since 2000.

Some animated series released in the 1990s remain incredible relevant today, due to their complex plot or mind-bending visuals.

It is widely believed that language is structured around ‘constituents’, units that combine hierarchically. Using structural priming, we provide evidence of linguistic structures — non-constituents — ...

When talking about language in prose fiction, there are a number of things you could look for: For example, the word 'desk' literally denotes a table, but it has connotations of work and study. Words ...