My empirical research on linguistic practice in India has been foundational to a series of articles coauthored with Mary Bucholtz that interrogate the relationship between language and identity. Our ...

Which linguistic subject is known as the mother of all languages? Explore its origin, linguistic science, and other important ...

Metaphor is not merely a literary device but a fundamental cognitive mechanism that shapes how individuals conceptualise and communicate their experiences. In cognitive linguistics, research into ...

We learn about how and why languages change. Language is constantly changing. Today’s small changes could lead to entirely new dialects or languages in the future. We learn about how and why languages ...

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, ...

Though Mr. Lin purports to attack "Chomsky's view of language" and to defend the "common sense view of language", he in fact attacks "views" that are basic and common to linguists, psycholinguists, ...

Spoken by just 60,000 people, Tommo So is one of hundreds of understudied and undocumented languages in the world. One UCLA graduate student is trying to preserve Tommo So, along with other ...

Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese (now titled Japanese Language and Literature) publishes contributions in the areas of Japanese literary studies, Japanese linguistics, and Japanese ...

LAST year, around New Year’s Day, I drew up a language and linguistics agenda for the Philippines for 2025. I thought of ...

The department of linguistics separated from the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL) at the beginning of the Fall 2023 semester, underscoring an important niche of the Georgetown University ...