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 ...

Glenn Hadikin is a trustee of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL). Words are often seen as the building blocks of languages. But as children we don’t learn lists of words like we ...

For more than 150 years ago, the assumption that language is a singular event has hampered progress in explaining its evolution. Another obstacle was the failure to recognize that certain social ...

Note: For a definition of unfamiliar terms, see our glossary. The fundamental particles of the universe that physicists have identified—electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and so on—are the "letters" of all ...