If you’re an avid viewer of crime shows, you’ve probably come across cases in which an expert, often a psychologist, is called in to help solve a crime using their language analysis skills. However, ...

Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics (CA/IL) is the study of the mutually shaping relationship between linguistic resources and social interaction. We take a cross-linguistic and ...

A linguistics analysis shows that language arrived in North America in multiple waves from Siberia. The Americas have half of the world’s linguistic diversity, despite a much shorter human history.

'Instant Scholar' is a Times of India initiative to make academic research accessible to a wider audience. If you are a Ph.D. scholar and would like to publish a summary of your research in this ...

Sometimes, how you say something can be as important as what you say — especially when’s there been a cyberattack and law enforcement officials are trying to figure out who you are. Linguistics ...

Interviewing suspects, victims and witnesses is part of street police work and detective work alike. Statements can back up information you already know or can provide you with new insight or a new ...

Indigenous people entered North America at least four times between 12,000 and 24,000 years ago, bringing their languages with them, a new linguistic model indicates. The model correlates with ...