Source: Andrea Piacquadio / Pexels During a conversation with a colleague the other day, my coworker made an observation that surprised me. He is a professor of French and has taught that language at ...

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world,” observed philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in 1922. We might ask, accordingly, how does language shape reality, arbitrating human experience of ...

Being a linguist — and someone who has tried to learn several languages (including English) in addition to my mother tongue (Flemish Dutch) — I have an annoying habit: instead of paying attention to ...