The study of linguistic cognition takes you into the heart of the mind. Cognitive linguists examine the language that we use to tell stories, describe feelings and sensory experiences, collaborate ...

Linguistics and computer science intertwined in the mid-20th century. Computers help linguists better understand and analyze languages and computer scientists use linguistics to advance programming.

What can you do with a degree in linguistics? Linguistics graduates have built careers in foreign service, law, international business, translation and interpreting, lexicography, teaching English to ...

Learning a language can’t be that hard — every baby in the world manages to do it in a few years. Figuring out how the process works is another story. Linguists have devised elaborate theories to ...

Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being "useless," but The Lord of the Rings, one of the highest-grossing franchises of all time, might not have been possible, ...