Trans-Luscent

10/08/2021

23/03/2020

There are 27 figures of speech hidden in this picture. Can you find them?

12/03/2020

The linguistic field of prosody, the story of melody, pitch, and other hard-to-study verbal traits, is suddenly hot.

13/02/2020

That’s the word on the street.

10/02/2020

Based in the Shropshire town of Bishops Castle, the business is the brain child of poet Deborah Alma.

01/02/2020

Time flies.

29/12/2019

It is unclear whether emotion terms have the same meaning across cultures. Jackson et al. examined nearly 2500 languages to determine the degree of similarity in linguistic networks of 24 emotion terms across cultures (see the Perspective by Majid). There were low levels of similarity, and thus high...

21/12/2019

Haha, love it!

21/11/2019

Idioms can tell us a lot about how speakers of a certain language express themselves. One interesting idiom that has an amazing and interesting variety across languages is the one describing rainfa…

03/11/2019

How do you do it?