The interactive function of language In our everyday social encounters, language serves an interactive function. It is not sufficient that language merely pairs forms and meanings.

Discomfort over body functions never sleeps, Burridge said, and the need for an ever-fresh selection of euphemisms about dirty subjects has long served as an impressive engine of linguistic invention.

This is the “magic or incantatory function,” a use of language that enables “the conversion of a third person, absent or inanimate, to whom a connotative message is addressed.” ...

The political economy of language teaching: by Gamini Keerawella (Based on a speech delivered at the BCIS Language Awards Ceremony 2023) The Bandaranaike Center for International Studies (BCIS) has ...

To forget a language is to lose a key to experiences beyond our own, shaping how we see humanity. The Young Reporter Scheme provides a platform for student voices and articles are submitted online ...

“The Seventh Function of Language,” a novel by French author Laurent Binet, is getting the feature film treatment. Uri Singer, the CEO of TaleFlick, a production company that specializes in ...

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art's Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art scrutinizes the critical and creative functions of language since the 1980s. Turn of Phrase ...