Enlightening Symbols Joseph Mazur Princeton Univ., $29.95 As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent ...

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. In our time, political speech and writing are largely the ...

There are fewer levers of state left, nation or not. Quebec’s existing language laws have already pulled the main ones. Bill 101, passed in 1977, did things that really encouraged the use of French.

LONDON Elaborate symbols drawn on to amulets and tablets by the Indus Valley civilisation belong to an unknown language, according to a new analysis by researchers. The controversial claim raises ...

New research has shown that the symbols used by the ancient Picts, who lived in Scotland from AD 300-843, were an actual written language, rather than just symbology.