Reactions to the inadvertent, or intentional, use of the “queen mother of dirty words” are likely to be quite different these days.

The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.

In the first part of her interview on the It's Probably Not Rocket Science podcast, University of New Mexico linguist Erin Wilkinson discussed how ...

Hold My Hand focuses exclusively on signers – who can be refreshingly blunt and extremely revealing. Heroda and Hermon Berhane, the deaf identical twin presenters, say it reveals their community in a ...

An accessibility startup details how they delivered The Oscars Project, which will bring ASL interpretation to all 10 Best ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Why Subtitles Aren't Enough: The Growing Demand for ASL in Entertainment ...

Depositions show how a Trump administration efficiency team used AI to help scan federal grant descriptions for diversity language.

Krupa Padhy uncovers how we really learn foreign languages – in a dual challenge involving both Portuguese and Mandarin.

An international team proposes replacing Hockett’s feature checklist with a model of language as a dynamic, multimodal, and socially evolving system.

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

Humanitarian NGOs face criticism for politicising the term “genocide.”Oxfam, MSF, and Gift of the Givers accused of bias ...