The crisis in Bangladesh today is not only political. It is civilisational, linguistic, and epistemic. What we are witnessing after the collapse of a dominant political order is an open contest over ...

In every index of social development, Kerala stands at the forefront among Indian States. Yet we must not forget that the ...

“We should stop deceiving ourselves by sending police commissioners from any state in the North to the Southwest or the ...

Juhani Karila grew up in a corner of Lapland so quiet that his imagination became loud. Decades later, it has helped him become one of Finland’s most distinctive literary voices.

Some classics travel further as symbols than stories. We examine ten formidable works that often sit on shelves as proof of ...

They marginalised nature’s barricades and drew lines on paper instead. These lines divided people with common language, culture and genes into heterogeneous nations and loyalties were divided. What ...

TL;DR: Andrew Stanton’s long-delayed sci-fi epic In the Blink of an Eye spans Neanderthals, present-day academics, and future ...

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

Three years after the original delighted and moved audiences, Planet of Lana 2 has arrived to continue Wishfully's emotional ...

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 ...

It is widely believed that language is structured around ‘constituents’, units that combine hierarchically. Using structural priming, we provide evidence of linguistic structures — non-constituents — ...

He has a beard, a splitting maul, and a house in Michigan. Is that enough to convince America that he’s a man of the people?