When it comes to using “big data” to analyze the patterns of society, the conversation inevitably turns to social media. Yet the world’s news media actually offers larger and richer insights into ...

A new study into the patterns of terrorist language could help authorities create algorithms to detect and flag extremist content online. The study by Charles Darwin University (CDU) Linguistics ...

Language patterns could be predicted by simple laws of physics, a new study has found. A theory using ideas from physics predicts where and how dialects occur. Language patterns could be predicted by ...

What someone says out loud about a group of people and how they actually feel about them aren't always the same thing, but a person's true sentiments about other groups of people can be revealed by ...

Like learning math, from simple counting to solving complex equations, language learning happens in a similar stepwise fashion, with each new step building on previous knowledge. Brown (1973) outlines ...

A journey into the formal foundations of natural language began as Professor Ryan Nefdt delivered his inaugural lecture on 20 May. The University of Cape Town's (UCT) Mafeje Room at the Bremner ...

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...