Indigenous languages must feature more in science communication
Considering the language aspect of knowledge transfer.
Natural speech used to map semantic system of cerebral cortex [2016’s top 100 journal articles]
Research subjects listened to narrative stories while brain responses were recorded by fMRI. Voxel-wise modelling…
The Emoji Evolution: The short and long of the emoji
Can emoji be defined as a language? Exploring the place of emoji in modern communication.
For the first time ever, the Word of the Year is not actually a word
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 is not a word. For the first…
Clarification techniques are universal in language
A fantastic linguistic study by Mark Dingemanse and Nick Enfield has shown that languages use three…
Is the rise of emoji a death sentence for written language?
There are concerns that the rise in the use of emoji – those small, often…