We all take language for granted, yet we rely upon it throughout our lives in order to perform a range of functions. Imagine how you would accomplish all the things you might do, even in a single day, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every once in a while a book comes along with a premise so inspired that it seems strange no one had thought of writing it before. Given ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every once in a while a book comes along with a premise so inspired that is seems strange no one had thought of writing it before. Given ...

ETC: A Review of General Semantics is a quarterly journal founded in 1943 by the International Society for General Semantics. ISGS merged with the Institute of General Semantics in 2003 and IGS has ...

Laurent Binet’s first novel, “HHhH,” walked a bit of a tightrope. In writing metafiction about the attempted assassination of the Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich, Binet almost guaranteed that he’d take ...

LANGUAGE has been a subject of interest not only for linguists but also anthropologists, biologists and culture-study specialists. During different periods of history, fundamental questions have been ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The premise of Laurent Binet’s The 7th Function of Language is a stroke of genius. Roland Barthes did not die ...