Students are less likely to think they can be good at both math and reading as they get closer to high school.
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Using urine and signature whistles from other dolphins, a team of scientists has shown that dolphins use signature whistles like names and hold mental representations of other dolphins in their minds.
How to use language clues to see through someone’s ‘expert’ facade.
Interpreters and translators enjoy rock star status in some countries, why are they invisible in Australia?
A language scientist explains that talking was never invented but has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years.
The grammar of persuasion can be subtle – but pro-lockdown tweeters tended to be more direct and less conciliatory than those they opposed.
Created in Europe during a time of intercultural struggle and strife, Esperanto was meant as a communication tool to spread peace among the people of the world. Its speakers are still at it.
Slated by critics, Netflix’s Persuasion isn’t as bad as it’s been made out to be.
Deaf people from different parts of the world can have different accents, whether they speak, sign or both.
Gossip has a long history in forming social bonds, and can be an important part of the workplace.
Around the world, one Indigenous language is lost every one or two weeks. Almost 10% of the world’s critically endangered languages are in Australia.
Fluent expression is not always evidence of a mind at work, but the human brain is primed to believe so. A pair of cognitive linguistics experts explain why language is not a good test of sentience.
Inaccurate language in media reports about strike action misrepresents how unions work and denies members’ agency.
Colonisation, genocide and changes in official languages have resulted in the hybridisation of languages. A mix of Kinyarwanda, French and English is dubbed kinyafranglais.
Some states have changed the wording of their laws in line with recommendations from the royal commission – but more needs to be done.
A mathematician explains how language can keep your online accounts safe and pinpoint your location on the planet.
The word ‘evil’ sends a clear message – or does it? There are deep tensions in what the word means, and what it can accomplish.
A project to identify rugby’s technical terms aims to make the international game easier to play, ref and watch for everyone, regardless of their native tongue.
Anne Lister’s various exchanges were coded in her diary with a mixture of words and symbols.
Dialects can unlock secrets of history, culture, class and movements of people. An expert explains what they are and why they matter.
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Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University
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Kate Burridge é um amigo do The Conversation.
Professor of Linguistics, Monash University
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Associate Dean and Professor of Psychology, University of Memphis
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Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford
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Professor of Linguistics, University of York
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Associate Professor in Linguistics, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor in Language, Literacy and TESL, University of Canberra
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Professor of Linguistics and English, Florida International University
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Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Postdoctoral research fellow (Forensic Linguistics/ Language and Law), University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, Texas A&M University
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Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University of Pittsburgh
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