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 ...

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

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 an estimated 7,000 languages spoken worldwide ... Each of the three emotions yielded consistent and distinct vowel ...

Children's aquisition of language and their acquisition of culture are processes that have usually been studied separately. In exploring cross-culturally the connections between the two, this volume ...

Whether you choose to major or minor in a classical or modern language, you immediately give yourself an advantage over many of your peers: the ability to communicate effectively across cultures and ...

languages, and social relations. The expression of emotion in the face, body and modes of speech are all explored and Wierzbicka shows how the bodily expression of emotion varies across cultures 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 ...

Through his comics, Malachi humorously explores travel, languages, and the quirks of cultural differences that ... but they ...