Learning another language is not a miracle cure for aging, and it cannot guarantee protection against Alzheimer’s disease. But it does have various other benefits.
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Twins Bridgette and Paula Powers have gone viral for the way they speak in unison, using the same gestures and words.
Can you guess which languages score the highest for terms relating to ‘love’, ‘death’, ‘canoe’ or ‘sheep’? We made a tool to help you explore our extensive dataset.
28% of trans and non-binary people felt they were not treated with dignity and respect during labour – but coverage of the UK birth trauma report has largely ignored LGBTQ+ families
The two human species had many similarities but their communication would have been different.
When language falls short of its ability to facilitate communication in the workplace, it can lead to misinterpretation and a sense of disconnection or exclusion.
The meanings we carry around in our heads seem so natural and inborn that we fail to realise other people can have quite different understandings.
The idea a language should grow simpler if people need to learn it as adults has an intuitive appeal. But an analysis of more than 1,200 languages shows this doesn’t quite stack up.
Obesity is out and ‘adipose-based chronic disease’ is in, according to a recent paper. But a name change alone won’t fix entrenched stigma.
By the 1950s a standard version of the language emerged, today spoken by an estimated 200 million people.
Social media use has adversely affected students’ English language learning in Ghanaian schools.
The number of students studying languages in UK universities has plummeted in recent years but some creative thinking may help to reverse that trend.
The ban on noisemaking in Accra has been known to cause tension in the city.
Early childhood education isn’t about warehousing children so adults can go to work. There is an ethical imperative to support a paradigm shift in how our society values educating young children.
Across Canada and the United States, more than two million people are living with aphasia and its language and communication challenges.
The way the press talks about obesity has changed over time.
Who are the arbiters of contentious language? The answer, in the case of terms that refer to people, is the people to whom those terms refer.
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Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources, Singapore Management University
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Professor and Acting Director, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders; Scientific Director, Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging, Western University
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Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
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Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University
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Professor of Philosophy, University of Southampton
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Professor of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, English and Communication Skills, Takoradi Technical University
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Professor, Linguistics, University of Manitoba
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Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Early Prehistory, University of Reading
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UKRI Future Leader Fellow, Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor, Management, Saint Mary’s University
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Chair, Education and Childhood Studies, Capilano University
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Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society, University of Edinburgh
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PhD candidate, School of Population Health, Curtin University