One recent and recurring topic in legal interpretation is the nature and status of rules of legal interpretation - such as the rule of lenity, the anti-surplusage canon, and much more. In an important ...

The ideas of Noam Chomsky, popularised by Steven Pinker, come under fire in Vyvyan Evans’s book The Language Myth: Why language is not an instinct IS THE way we think about language on the cusp ...

Natural languages comprise elaborate systems of rules that enable one speaker to communicate with another 7. These rules serve to simplify the production of language and enable an infinite array of ...

When we speak our native language we unconsciously follow certain rules. These rules are different in different languages. For example, if I want to talk about a particular collection of oranges, in ...

Here’s a test. Without looking them up on Google, try to guess the meanings of the foreign antonyms tobi and kekere. They are words in Yoruba, a widely spoken West African language that has its roots ...

One of the most dominant approaches to language learning today has leaned heavily on digital algorithms, such as gamified apps, short-burst repetitions, and conversation bots driven by artificial ...

You recall back in 2004 when George W. Bush referred to "rumors on the Internets." That instantly became a classic Bushism, but to my mind he got it right — not just because what we call the Internet ...

This week, Mike Riley, the general manager of the Professional Game Match Officials, admitted that Premier League players are regularly allowed to get away with swearing at the referee. He told The ...