Words are not random units. Rather, they follow hidden linguistic structures that demonstrate how language generates meaning ...

For decades, journalists have worked to separate the language in news stories about abortion from the political rhetoric used by those fighting to criminalize or decriminalize the medical procedure.

Derek Gladwin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Canada First Research Excellence Fund in Canada. Kedrick James receives funding from the Social Sciences and ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Joshua Plotkin, a biology professor at the University of ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

In the early 20th century linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf thrilled his contemporaries by noting that the Hopi language, spoken by Native American people in what is now Arizona, had no words or grammatical ...

KCRW Reports California accents are way more complex than you think A project called Los Angeles Speaks is looking at how language evolves and affects communities, including neighborhoods impacted by ...

The “67” meme is practically everywhere these days. You’ll hear kids chanting it at games and TikTok clips looping it nonstop, as well as a few brands using it to promote their products. No wonder so ...

In a move that perfectly captures the digital chaos of modern communication, Dictionary.com has chosen “67” as its Word of the Year for 2025. The decision reflects how quickly internet slang, memes, ...

In an age where social media, viral headlines, and endless scrolling dominate our online experience, language evolves fast. Every year, Oxford University Press picks a “Word of the Year” , a term that ...