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Judgements of politeness go beyond language and culture – they are also deeply tied to emotion and moral intuition.

Last April, the University of Southern California announced plans to eliminate its German department, stating that it wanted to shift resources away from European languages to Asian languages like ...

Mothers and children who play together show synchronized brain activity, and that neural coupling holds steady even when the ...

TOKYO -- "You must start learning a foreign language young to master it."Shinji Miyazaki, a 62-year-old translator is ...

A new analysis of genetic studies proposes that the cognitive capacity for language was already present at least 135,000 ...

In an era of dwindling budgets, universities have identified language programs as an area for possible cuts. Languages with few students are being framed as luxuries that cannot be afforded during a ...

University students of yesteryear read the classics. Aristotle, Euclid, Homer and Plato were part of the regular course of study. And students read these challenging texts in their original languages ...

At Connecticut College, students explore intercultural communication skills as an integral part of liberal learning. All students are expected to study another language for at least two semesters; ...