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

My empirical research on linguistic practice in India has been foundational to a series of articles coauthored with Mary Bucholtz that interrogate the relationship between language and identity. Our ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Cognitive Linguistics" book to their offering. In the past few decades, cognitive linguistics has developed into one of ...

Language is far more than a system of voluntary symbols; it is the fundamental vessel of human culture, identity, and ...

We learn about how and why languages change. Language is constantly changing. Today’s small changes could lead to entirely new dialects or languages in the future. We learn about how and why languages ...

International Mother Language Day 2026 celebrates youth-led multilingual education and honours the enduring power of mother tongues worldwide.

Schools from the Arab region, Africa, Asia, South America and Europe - came together to celebrate International Mother Language Day under the theme “Many languages, one future: Youth voices on ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...

John Fiset receives funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Devasheesh Bhave receives funding from the Singapore Ministry of Education (MOE) Academic Research Fund (AcRF).