What would you think if we said that the language we speak not only allows us to communicate but also determines how we perceive reality? This may seem like an exaggeration, but the Sapir-Whorf ...

Whilst trudging across campus Thursday from my 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. class in Litton-Reeves to my 11:00 a.m. -12:15 p.m. class in Lane Hall, the weather's blunt and reprehensible harassment of my ...

Human Organization, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Winter 2007), pp. 438-452 (15 pages) It has been increasingly reasoned that language and organizational culture mediate between independent observers and the ...

When I was learning Spanish, the use of subjunctive verbs to convey modality captivated me. In linguistics, “modality” refers to the speaker’s attitude towards the proposition he/she is conveying. In ...

Does language shape thought? Do the languages we speak affect how we live our lives? These are some of the oldest questions in the cognitive and social sciences, and a handful of high-profile research ...

This article explores the hypothesis that having a mind which is open to other ways of looking at the world may facilitate one's ability to learn a new language. The term "ethno-lingual relativity" is ...