Linguistics

Like other things, our preferred swear words are regional.

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

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

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

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

It isn't just valley girl babble.

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

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

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.