Peter Martin's The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language shows Noah Webster as the sort of ideologue who's convinced he has a historical mission and carries himself accordingly, writes Scott McLemee.
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By paying more attention to behaviors, and not just to the activity of neurons, two researchers critical of most neuroscience learned how brains make sense of spoken language.
Research has found that swearing has a power that other words lacks.
Sometimes it take a little bit of humor to see that clear ideas can get buried inside convoluted sentences
Scanners show that canine brains respond to words like humans.
Scanners show that canine brains respond to words like humans.
In Banking on Words, Arjun Appadurai argues that the 2008 financial crisis was, in essence, a failure of language. Narendar Pani finds that argument somewhat overstated, while at the same time acknowledging this book's "path-breaking" analysis of the role language has come to play in the way markets behave and are managed.
New research into human fossils dating back approximately two million years reveals how a hearing pattern that might have been useful in vocal communication in an open terrain.
Computers can translate French and prove mathematical theorems. But can they make deep conceptual insights into the way the world works?
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