For centuries, people have used mythology to try to make sense of the fact that the people of the world speak so many different languages. One example of the origin story of the "confusion of tongues" ...

Shortly after the end of the devastating war, a book on English conversation came out and became the first postwar best-seller in Japan. Published on Sept. 15, 1945, just one month after the broadcast ...

As deaf individuals lost their sight in the DeafBlind community that Asst. Prof. Terra Edwards was studying, she discovered that an entirely new language emerged—one that doesn’t try to negotiate with ...

It’s a safe bet that as you read this — and everything else in the paper — you are absorbing the meaning, but not thinking about the letters used to spell the words. Where do those letters come from?

Jennifer Songster roved the crowded aisles of the small mom-and-pop shop, riffling through books in Khmer, the official language of Cambodia. Outside, the streets of Phnom Penh bustled. The air was ...

In the basement of her home, surrounded by boxes and leather-bound pages, BYU alumna Bailey Kroff is quietly leading a multilingual revolution in scripture study. Kroff, a returned missionary who ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Clay Shirky BECAUSE INTERNET Understanding the New Rules of Language By Gretchen McCulloch The ...

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