What is a woman? Or a man? Or a chair, or a sandwich? Or anything, really? “Gender critical” people are making language into a vector…
When language was innovated, what happened next? How did it change our abilities — and our responsibilities — to each other? Dr Nick Enfield shares ideas…
In what was meant to be a casual chat, cognitive scientist Dr Mark Ellison answers galaxy-brain-level questions about how language works. Fortunately, he helps us…
Language isn’t just for communication — it’s fun. For over a hundred years, crosswords have served as entertainment, and even been blamed for society’s ills.…
What we call sometimes Chinese is really a gigantic family of languages. They’re somewhat divided in mutual intelligibility, and somewhat united in their writing system.…
We’re taking over Pint of Science (or are they taking over us?) for this episode! Three researchers are presenting their work in language, and they’ll…