The reasons for learning languages are as diverse as the people who study them. You may wish to enrich your travels abroad and interactions with other cultures. You may desire to converse with a ...

anthropological and lingusitic insights to bear on our understanding of the way emotions are expressed and experienced in different cultures, languages, and social relations. The expression of emotion ...

The Migration, culture and community research cluster explores, develops and disseminates a range of research activities within the broad fields of language and identity across cultural and national ...

A new study examined vocal expressions of emotion across 131 languages, exploring similarities in emotional interjections and ...

The Department of World Languages and Cultures is an inclusive community of faculty and students committed to creating a more diverse and equitable world by raising intercultural awareness and ...

People around the world associate a trilled R sound with a rough texture and a jagged shape, and an L sound with a smooth ...

An interdisciplinary team explored possible regularities in vocal emotional expressions by comparing expressive interjections, such as 'wow,' to nonlinguistic vocalizations, such as screams and cries, ...

There are approximately 7,000 human languages spoken worldwide. In every one of them, we have expressions for pain, joy, and ...

As a world languages and cultures major, you will acquire the language skills and cultural understanding necessary to succeed in today's multicultural workplace. Studying a language offers benefits ...

There are an estimated 7,000 languages spoken worldwide, each offering unique ways to express human emotion. But do certain ...