Minoan Linear A tablets yield insights into the civilization’s economy and administration without the language being ...

Western University's Frank Boers explains why idioms can cause even fluent english speakers trouble with communicating and understanding.

The Tribunal held that Countervailing Duty applies only to castings, even if they form part of sub-assemblies or components, ...

Semantic Extension, Idioms and Proverbs, Cultural Semantics, Cognitive Semantics Share and Cite: Di, J.Y. (2026) A Semantic Analysis of “Peach” in Chinese and Japanese. Open Access Library Journal, 13 ...

Ontario, Dec 20 (The Conversation) Being a linguist — and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue (Flemish Dutch) — I have an annoying ...

To some, the term itself might sound like a lexical impossibility: how can you have a relationship if you’re actively rebelling against being in one? Well, quite. But an outright rejection of romantic ...

Researchers assessed volunteers’ brain activity while they listened to stories, showing that strokes disrupt how the brain ...

I started writing a short, casual article on yansh (the Nigerian Pidgin English word for a woman’s posterior, which probably ...

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales ...

Instead of pedestrian sentences, regale them with prose that sings, with language limned with the audacity to eschew ...

This valuable study links psychological theories of chunking with a physiological implementation based on short-term synaptic plasticity and synaptic augmentation. The theoretical derivation for ...