Mexican Americans interviewed in Spanish (vs. English) tend to have worse self-rated health despite their low morbidity and mortality. This project tests whether this language-of-interview effect also ...

The relationship between linguistic processes, cognitive activities, and social structures is explored by examining the decision making of committees of educators as they decide to place students into ...

Language and thought are intricately intertwined, creating a complex tapestry that shapes our cognition. While it is evident that thought can exist independently of language, particularly in the ...

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art's Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art scrutinizes the critical and creative functions of language since the 1980s. Turn of Phrase ...

Dr Adam Schembri, Professor of Linguistics, explains the importance of studying the science of language to mark World Linguistics Day.

Language is one of the most distinctive features of the human species. There are good reasons to believe it is a uniquely human capacity that no other organism has (Berwick and Chomsky, 2016). Unlike ...

To study a language is to study its people, and their connection to others, to animals and to nature. “Maintaining a language isn’t just maintaining a form of communication, it’s maintaining a group ...

Nearly one year after its release, a report on foreign language and higher education issued by an ad hoc committee of the Modern Language Association is still provoking discussion—some of it ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from organisations to investigate teacher standards, curriculum development and the education of refugee background ...