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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 ...

In December, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art opened Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art, an exhibition examining the critical and creative functions of language in ...

Three recent books about language and communication, intended for a general audience, are well worth your time. They address perennial issues about the nature of language and language change with ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

No other faculty of mind differentiates human beings from other species as does language. We use it to encode ideas, to pass knowledge on to subsequent generations, to think, to communicate, to ...