Ever tried selling a car called “Corpse by Fisher” in Flanders? Or marketing a soda that “brings ancestors back from the grave” in Taiwan? These stories show us that words are very important in global ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Stories about the campus language police are a staple of the conservative-leaning press. There, you’ll read about a University of Washington language guide created by the campus’s information ...

“Ohio.” “Brat.” “Cringe.” “Weird.” Coconut emojis. Viral memes are omnipresent this campaign season, distilling concepts, images and ideas into simple, replicable formats that spread rapidly online.

From business to fashion, people who speak two or more languages tend to demonstrate more out of the box thinking, new research suggests. How are such ideas conceived? In the case of the spray-on ...

In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through which power is exercised ...

Director of Sales and Strategic Partnerships at ReadyCloud, the Shipping, Returns, Growth Marketing and CRM Suite built for e-commerce. The landscape of B2B SaaS sales is constantly evolving, becoming ...

“Vegan,” “vegetarian,” “meatless,” “plant-based,” “plant-rich,” “plant-forward,” “animal-free”: these are all terms used to describe foods or diets that are mostly or completely made of non-animal ...

The contents of this article are a pragmatic, simplified, and adapted version of John Austin’s (1962) work on speech act theory (SAT), first presented at Oxford University between 1951 and 1954 and at ...

This post was written by Beth Mark, M.D., and the Climate Committee at the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Metaphors have a special place in language. They get into one’s feelings and ...