Idioms have a special power to draw people together in a way that plain speech doesn't.

Language is the cognitive faculty that separates humans from other animals, but interjections have often been equated with the primitive cries of animals.

“You have hissed all my mystery lectures. I saw you fight a liar in the back quad; in ...

Why do certain combinations of words make good band names? Linguistic research points to "semantic space."

Strong language has a unique place in linguistics. 

Is the syllable universal? Maybe. We look at how languages use (and don't use) syllables, and what this says about language itself.

secret language games or ludlings, have been serious business for young people across the ages.