Many ideas similar to those of Thomas Hobbes about human nature were expressed in the past. But Hobbes was the only one who stood by his views and their consequences to the end. […]
The language that you use matters—not only when it comes to enacting behavioral change, but also when it comes to minimizing our stress about certain situations. Professor Vishton reveals the studies and real-life examples that demonstrate this. […]
How is it that we know what we know? Our brains do a marvelous job of unraveling the mysteries of the world through language, much of it through the power of observation. Professor Vishton explains. […]
Did you know that one area of our brain is responsible for creating the words that we speak while another area helps us to understand others’ words? When it comes to brain injuries, left-handed and right-handed people are impacted differently. Professor Vishton explains. […]
Russenorsk was quite unusual in that it developed from a situation in which there was a strong element of mutuality, as expressed in the name for it – ‘moja po toja’. […]
Pidgins differ from languages in having fewer vowels, fewer words and fewer difficult consonants. They are partial languages. […]
The main idea of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is that the structure of our grammar channels the way we think. There have been experiments to support this, but the hypothesis has never been proven to the extent that is often implied. […]
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis states that the structure of our grammar channels the way we think. However, the recent studies that have been aimed at the issue, have been extremely unpromising. […]
There seems to be no one answer to the question of the call for political autonomy being related to the support and promotion of the Celtic languages. Each region behaves different depending on several factors and their Celtic history. […]
Mandarin and Swahili are both intermediate languages, in that they have both been modified by interaction with speakers of other languages. […]
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