The Hong Kong meeting of the WTO has amply illustrated how difficult it is to arrive at a consensus about the rules of free trade. The fact that none of the major players has been willing to budge-to ...

Somewhere between indecipherable hieroglyphics and pictures that say a thousand words stand the computer-generated graphics that adorn business communications. They typically range from pie charts ...

Driven by immigration, globalization and an increased recognition of the value of speaking more than one language, multilingualism is on the rise in the U.S. According to the Census Bureau, 20% of all ...

In a world of globalization, language is a tool that connects us with one another. For both adults and children, learning a new language is extremely advantageous. It not only widens the scope of ...

In the prison house of language. In the wide open and free spaces of language. Or in the convoluted labyrinth of language. All are metaphors for the great variety of things we make language do for us ...

As a military power England threatens no one, not even the French, with whom she was perpetually at war until fairly recent times. Since the 1707 Act of Union, England's political identity has been ...