In the study of international relations, power has traditionally been measured through military capability, economic weight, ...

My ethnographic research on linguistic practice in India has shaped a series of articles with Mary Bucholtz on the relationship between language and identity. Synthesizing insights from diverse fields ...

A young Latina mother I was interviewing once laughed uncomfortably as she described her sons' embarrassment when put on the spot by older Latinos. They would speak to her sons in Spanish, before ...

Source: iStock image by Oko SwanOmurphy licensed to Art Markman Language plays a significant role in all aspects of human social and cognitive life. People communicate with each other in a language.

Inside a Barcelona film studio, a technician cues up a scene from the movie Prisoners, showing Jake Gyllenhaal's latest car chase. Then a local actor — albeit one who's slightly older, balder and ...

In 2019, Washington, D.C.’s Pride celebrations became a flashpoint—but not just for the usual political tensions. Organizers of the annual Dyke March barred participants from carrying the Jewish Pride ...

Singapore (AsiaNews) – In Singapore, the language issue is front-page news once again. While English is progressing as the primary language of education, work and business, many fear linguistic ...

Why do languages die? They die when their speakers abandon them for other languages, because they are not given prestige and they become ashamed of their own languages Ethnologue is a book which ...