Chomsky’s father’s approach to the study of language bore similarities to Zellig Harris’ work in Semitics, the study of Arabic, Hebrew and other Semitic languages. Harris invited Noam to ...

"A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition and a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is," as linguist Noam Chomsky once said. To help stem the ...

On International Mother Language Day, read Nishtha Sood’s personal essay on how Hindi’s dominance is eroding the Punjabi language, reshaping identity, and reinforcing linguistic hierarchies in India’s ...

Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a ...

George Orwell famously wrote in Politics and the English Language (1946) that "political language is designed to make lies ...

Mainstream punditry on the verbal clash between President Trump and Vice President Vance with Ukraine's Zelensky over the ...