Language and Society Blog

Interestingly, the inspiration for this paper came from one of my softball practices a few months ago. We had a special day of practice in w...

An idiom is is "an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either grammatically or in having a meaning that c...

We have discussed sign language and the deaf community in class several times. Recently the "Google Alerts" have been flooded with...

Estonian Education Minister Tonis Lukas has announced a "Language Beauty Contest" that will take place to celebrate the 90th birth...

In class we have been discussing how we use the different languages that we know. Some of us speak our native language at home, while speaki...

Introns, short for "intragenic regions", are regions of DNA, also known as "junk DNA." They gained this nickname becaus...

Garth George, an opinion writer for the New Zealand Herald, claims that illiteracy and the lack of competent language skills make up the roo...