- Types of Nonverbal Communication (Very Well Mind)
Culture
- Baseball Players Are Famous for Cliches. Here Are The Ones They Actual Use (The Washington Post)
- Why Midwestern City Accents Are Fading (CityLab)
- What the @#$%! Americans can’t get through the day without cursing (New York Post)
- Women who interrupt conversation seen as less intelligent by men (Ladders)
- Can You Lose A Language You Never Knew? (NPR)
- The joys and benefits of bilingualism (The Guardian)
- U.S. Census: English in the Home (Media Research Center)
- You use this word to help you through hard times without even knowing it (Mashable)
- Phrases Americans say that leave foreigners stumped (Insider)
Symbolic Culture
- Think twice before you use emoticons. People from other countries might not understand you : – ( (Quartz)
- Want to understand people's emotions? (World Economic Forum)
Global Culture
- Greece’s disappearing whistled language (BBC)
- There are 14 different kinds of love identified across the world’s languages (Quartz)
- One of the most common questions in American small talk is seen as rude in much of the world (Quartz)
- Why Some Cultures Frown on Smiling (The Atlantic)
- We’d have a better chance of preserving Africa’s dying languages if we learned their history (Quartz)
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Emotion concepts are not the same worldwide (University of Otago)
- The Language You Speak Influences Where Your Attention Goes (Scientific American)
- The way you see colour depends on what language you speak (The Conversation)
- 5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World (Facts So Romantic)
- People with depression use language differently (Business Insider)
- The Japanese words for “space” could change your view of the world (Quartz)
- Learning a new language changes the way you perceive reality (Quartz)
- Reading stories creates universal patterns in the brain (Medical News Today)
- We Use Words to Talk. Why Do We Need Them to Think? (New York Media LLC)
- Being fluent in two languages might literally change how you perceive time (Mic)
- 'Anumeric' people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers? (The Conversation)
Cultural Change
- As Animals and Plants Go Extinct, Languages Die Off Too (Vice)
- Cringing at how teens talk? Surprise: Language changes (Phys.org)
- 15 words that had to be added to the dictionary to keep up with the changin’ times (2017, Hello Giggles)
- Why 'Dumpster Fire' Was 2016 Word of the Year (Business Insider)
Technology
- There’s a reason using a period in a text message makes you sound angry (Quartz)
- Kuri, Ozlo, Cujo: Why Do So Many Robot Names Sound Alike? (FastCoDesign)
Perspectives
- The elusive foolproof theory of the origin of language (The Conversation)
- A linguistic anthropologist explains why, um, “filler words” are OK to use (Quartz)
- The psychological reasons why we use filler words like 'um' and 'you know' in conversations (Business Insider)
- Why do people swear? (BBC News)