Philosophy of language and linguistic theory examine the intricate relationship between language, meaning and the mind. This interdisciplinary field interrogates the ways in which words and ...

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, ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language, aiming to answer the question “What do we know when we know a language?” Although language is involved in nearly every aspect of the human ...

Location of Lagado in Balnibarbi (original map, Pt III, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels). Wikicommons. Public domain. Though the discussion of Noam Chomsky’s linguistic theory has been conducted ...

Analyse language in all its forms - how it shapes our lives, connects people and drives creativity. Our course draws on insights from science and arts, and gives you a fresh, hands-on approach to ...

The origin and genesis of Urdu has always been a subject of animated discussion — and a source of unending controversy — among linguists. There is a wide range of theories about how Urdu originated ...

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, ...

The origin and genesis of Urdu has always been a subject of animated discussion — and a source of unending controversy — among linguists. There is a wide range of theories about how Urdu originated ...