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

Learn how researchers analyzed 3,000 Paleolithic symbols to uncover structured information comparable to early writing systems.

The South is home to countless extraordinarily colorful, inventive, and downright hilarious turns-of-phrase, which, thanks to local vocabularies, glossaries, and collections like the Dictionary of ...

Just as certain innocuous American expressions, like ""fanny pack,"" should never be used in London, certain Spanish words, like ""coger,"" are perfectly acceptable in Madrid and perfectly vulgar in ...

In the past, K–12 schools may have relied on limited interpreter and other resources to communicate with families that primarily spoke languages other than English. Now, however, artificial ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

In July 2025, Assembly Bill 377 was introduced before the Wisconsin State Assembly. This bill is aimed at making English the official language of the US state of Wisconsin, and allowing state agencies ...

Today’s column is the latest in a yearlong series on how to avoid common mistakes made in the name of culturally responsive teaching. The political environment in which we live and teach has ...

Cecelia Cutler is the co-editor of “Language Activism: The Role of Scholars in Linguistic Reform and Social Change” A new scholarly movement is pushing beyond the research–activism divide. The book ...