Contemporary theories of communication often presuppose the existence, or at least the eventual attainability, of a shared code, be it a common language, ...

Lina Fruzzetti, a social anthropologist and professor emerita of social science at Brown University, will receive the ...

When a grieving sister builds an artificial version of her missing sibling from digital traces — texts, emails and social media posts — the premise raises an uncomfortable question: Would others do ...

(The Conversation) — If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college ...

New research links DNA and language diversity, showing that isolated populations consistently develop more varied language ...

Thurka Sangaramoorthy is the chair of the anthropology department at American University. I am the daughter of immigrants who fled civil war in Sri Lanka and came to the United States with very little ...

I was always pretty sure that I wanted to attend a liberal-arts college. I visited Dickinson as an accepted senior. Learning about the expansive study-abroad opportunities made a strong impression on ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

The SLA 2022 Spring Conference was jointly organized by the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) and the Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP) at the University of Colorado ...

Why choose this course at Sussex? People, cultures and societies are different the world over. As an Anthropology student, you’ll explore a wide diversity of cultural contexts. You’ll study the ways ...

More than 7,000 languages are spoken around the world today and at least 3,000 of them, or 40 percent, are endangered. English is the most widely spoken language, with approximately 1.5 billion ...