How you understand the messages sent to you is shaped in large part by your culture and subcultures—the contexts in which you learned “normal” ways of seeing and hearing the world around you. Grasp the key dimensions along which cultures can be compared […]
Our cultural learning tells us that talk is about influential talk—saying the right words in the right way. […]
If you are someone who feels some insecurity about your mastery of grammar, this course asks you to believe that you know more than you think you do. […]
Language historian Anne Curzan gives a charming look at the humans behind dictionaries, and the choices they make on a constant basis. […]
English is fast becoming the world’s universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. But with 6,000 languages coexisting in 200 nations, bilingualism […]
By John McWhorter, Ph.D, Columbia University Recent research has shown that all languages may be able to trace their roots back to a common tongue […]
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