Psychologist Albert Mehrabian’s research revealed the ‘7%-38%-55% Rule’, which illustrates the relative impact of our words, vocal variety, and body language ...
Over time, we can internalize gender roles so deeply that they become engrained in the way we sit, stand, walk, talk, and gesture. There are many aspects of our body language that are gendered without ...
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, ...
Language learning is a fascinating and intricate process that has intrigued scholars and researchers for centuries. It is not only a means of communication but also a window into the complex workings ...
Today is International Language Day, and the idea of it is to, yes, celebrate languages. The holiday was an initiative of Bangladesh, which was then approved by UNESCO in 1999. International Language ...
Linguists use machine-learning techniques for mining large text corpora to detect how the structure of a language lends meaning to its words. They work on the assumption that terms that appear in ...