An equality-minded preschool in Sweden is avoiding the use of gender-specific pronouns like he and she, and referring to the kids as friends, rather than girls and boys.
Is this linguistic egalitarianism, or radical language engineering? Does using gendered …
We’re used to treating time as though it were space: we move through the day, we look back on the past, and we look forward to the future.
But what if we didn’t use such metaphors? What would that say …
The US intelligence agency IARPA is putting a heavy research focus, not into lie detection or speech recognition, but metaphor.
That’s right, the figure of speech where you describe something as something else. But why would that be useful for …
Human evolution resulted in the formation of what could be called the “super-brain”, as humans gained the ability to share complex thoughts.
What can archaeology tell us about the human mind and the evolution of language?
This week’s Talk the …
New research is revealing our secret attitudes about accent.
Our brains show different patterns when listening to people with different accents, and it impacts our judgments on how credible or trustworthy we find the speaker. But why do we have …
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