In line with the idea that certain sounds may coincide with particular emotions, researchers have found that words may ...

Tibetan children as young as four are taught in Mandarin in boarding schools. A Tibetan sociologist says the schools replace Tibetan children’s mindset with a “Chinese mindset.” ...

The proliferation of "y'all" points to a global cultural shift toward more inclusive language and merging traditions.

Late RKW Goonesekere’s contributions to Sri Lanka’s law and legal professionntributions to Sri Lanka’s law and legal profession Justice Yasantha Kodagoda, PC. It was a few weeks ago that Professor ...

Mr. Xi called on private enterprises to “have ambition to serve the country” in a nod to the role that Chinese entrepreneurs play in developing technologies at the heart of China’s ...

UNESCO’s World Atlas of Languages documents 8,324 languages, spoken or signed, of which around 7,000 languages are still in use today. Only 351 languages are used as medium of instruction. One ...

However, relatively little attention has been paid to another key aspect that affects replicability: language. Across fields, language plays a central role in all steps of the research cycle and ...

More than that, they wanted a kind of building that "would be recognized as a reference in terms of renewal of the architectural language." Before settling on the architect, they spoke to several ...

In the Eye of the Storm, the exhibition’s evocative title, captures the continuous menace that haunted the pioneering Ukrainian artists and intellectuals as they endeavored to carve out their own ...