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, ...

The Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University offers various courses in linguistics. Linguistics is often called "the science of language," the study of the human ...

I talked recently with Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct and other books about language and the mind, about his new book, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the ...

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It investigates the subconscious and systematic knowledge that speakers of a language possess. Such knowledge allows them to communicate and ...

Our M.A. is a flexible program of study that provides training in linguistics and/or cognitive science. Students may propose a customized program of advanced study that combines elements from either ...

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, ...