Tag: Linguistics
A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last...
Andrew Cowell, University of Colorado Boulder
I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a...
Making English the official US language can’t erase the fact that...
Daniel J. Olson, Purdue University
English should be the official language of the United States, says a new executive...
Love it or hate it, nonliteral ‘literally’ is here to stay:...
Valerie M. Fridland, University of Nevada, Reno
Few words so rile language purists as the use of the adverb...
Why some people talk very fast and others … take …...
Michelle Devereaux, Kennesaw State University and Chris C. Palmer, Kennesaw State University
Pop culture abounds with examples of very...
Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can...
Georgi Gardiner, University of Tennessee
What is love? Could those feelings you label as love be something else?
‘Thirst trap’ and ‘edgelord’ were recently added to the dictionary –...
Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis
A student in my graduate seminar recently mentioned seeing her “niblings” at Thanksgiving....
To have better disagreements, change your words – here are 4...
Julia Minson, Harvard Kennedy School
Your 18-year-old daughter announces she’s in love, dropping out of college and moving to...
What is that voice in your head when you read?
Beth Meisinger, University of Memphis and Roger J. Kreuz, University of Memphis
Curious Kids is...
EXPLORING NATURE
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states...
Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
Two years ago, countries around the world set a goal of “transitioning away from fossil...
