As governments worldwide explore how artificial intelligence can transform decision-making, a recent study from Sultan Qaboos ...

Based on theories from political economy and linguistics, the research argues that language has always been tied to labor.

Progovac's study challenges two dominant narratives in human evolution: "survival of the fittest" (physical strength) and "survival of the friendliest" (prosociality). While both played a role, ...

Linguistics experts say many words and phrases coined by Gen Zers have roots in African American Language that date back ...

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

It’s a familiar moment in math class—students are asked to solve a problem, and some jump in confidently while others freeze, unsure where to begin. When students don’t yet have a clear mental model ...

A Purdue professor has been honored as a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) for her more than five decades of service to language communities. One of the world’s leading figures in sign ...

This study compares AI-generated texts (via ChatGPT) and student-written essays in terms of lexical diversity, syntactic complexity, and readability. Grounded in Communication Theory—especially ...

A single typo, formatting error, or slang word makes an AI more likely to tell a patient they’re not sick or don’t need to seek medical care. That’s what MIT researchers found in a June study ...

ABSTRACT: This paper applies Verschueren’s Adaptation Theory to examine the pragmatic identity construction of Theodore Decker, the protagonist in Donna Tartt’s novel The Goldfinch. The findings show ...

What if you could simplify the complexities of natural language processing (NLP) without sacrificing accuracy or efficiency? For years, developers and researchers have wrestled with the steep learning ...