Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic ...

Wild chimpanzees alter the meaning of single calls when embedding them into diverse call combinations, mirroring linguistic operations in human language. Human language, however, allows an infinite ...

In public speaking, archetypes can evoke universal themes and tap into the collective unconscious of the audience.