The Internal Revenue Service posted a Spanish version of its Form 1040 and instructions Tuesday and made available publications and online information in other languages. The move is part of IRS ...

This article is excerpted from the new book, "The Language Wars: A History of Proper English" from Farrar, Straus and Girous. No language has spread as widely as English, and it continues to spread.

We all take language for granted, yet we rely upon it throughout our lives in order to perform a range of functions. Imagine how you would accomplish all the things you might do, even in a single day, ...

Language is central to all our lives and is arguably the cultural tool that sets humans apart from any other species. And on some accounts, language is the symbolic behaviour that allowed human ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at ScienceNordic. In Italy they speak Italian. In Germany they speak German, and in Denmark, Danish. If this was true for all other countries, ...

Question: I’ve always wondered why is it mathematics is considered the “universal language” in physics and the explanation of the natural world. What is the possibility of different civilizations ...

If you are proficient in a language not currently taught at Brandeis University (including American Sign Language) and wish to be exempt from the language requirement on the basis of that proficiency: ...