Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, aiming to answer the question “What do we know when we know a language?” Although language is involved in nearly every aspect of the human ...

Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...

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 ...

This post is by Amy J. Heineke, Associate Professor of Bilingual and Bicultural Education in the School of Education at Loyola University Chicago. In a thought-provoking blog post from 2014, Jal Mehta ...

Humans use language as part of almost everything we do in social life. Whether it’s an everyday activity such as chit-chatting with a friend or family member over dinner, or something as globally ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The aliens’ written language moved in circles, each sentence lacking a defined beginning or end. The alien visitors seemed to view time in a similar manner: as a circular concept. Working to decode ...

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, ...