My mother is worried that he is going to get me killed,” an MIT PhD student wrote in an email to police about a professor who ...

Corpus linguistics can’t actually offer clear-cut answers around language, even if it looks like a more objective way to answer questions. “It looks like it’s this quantification, ...

We cannot force students to write "original" prose without any external help. But we can teach them to be responsible authors ...

Linguistics allows a language—with all of its richness and complexity—to be studied as a psychological, cultural and historical object, enabling pupils to probe how it is shaped by (and shapes ...

When Gašper Beguš began studying linguistics, he spent his time deciphering ancient, largely dead languages. "Nobody cared ...

The Linguistics of Swearing Explain Why We Substitute Darn for Damn Languages from Hindi to Korean tone down swear words by inserting gentler consonants into speech. Here’s how “Let’s go ...

Forensic linguistics is the application of linguistics, or the study of language, to the law. Forensic linguists examine language to identify patterns or distinctive traits in the author's style ...

Linguistics is a scientific subject, which means linguistics majors ask questions and test hypotheses about language. Students may focus on the role of language in society or how children and ...

We see plenty of other legal applications for corpus linguistics. Contract interpretation has many parallels with — and many sharp differences from — statutory interpretation.

Judges routinely turn to dictionaries in their search for ordinary meaning, but dictionaries cannot tell us the ordinary meaning of words in the particular context of a statute.