Linguistics

Like other things, our preferred swear words are regional.

• By Jay Livingston

New research finds mimicking the linguistic style of your opponent is a smart strategy in presidential debates.

• By Tom Jacobs

Actors Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans apologized for slut-shaming their female co-avenger. But did they mean it?

• By Kate Wheeling

Conservatives and liberals like to hear different things from their leaders.

• By Seth Masket

Will Charlie Hebdo, the magazine, reclaim its name from Charlie Hebdo, the terrorist attack?

• By Rick Paulas

It isn't just valley girl babble.

• By Ryan Jacobs

Slaying, yet again, the idea that the languages we speak shape the thoughts we think.

• By Graeme Wood

New research reveals that most college-age people in Southern California—regardless or sex or socioeconomic background—use uptalk.

• By Sarah Sloat

It's been said that Britain and America are two great nations separated by a common tongue. New visualizations storming the Web suggest the same may be true of America by itself.

• By Michael Todd