Judgements of politeness go beyond language and culture – they are also deeply tied to emotion and moral intuition.

I remember the first time I attended a linguistics lecture as an undergraduate in Argentina. The lecturer asked a simple question: where does language come from? My instinctive answer was: books.

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Then you have come to the right place! For years, I have been interested in Japanese culture. Now that I have visited the country and made plenty of Japanese friends, I decided to master the language.

When the Anchorage School District voted to convert O’Malley Elementary into a French immersion school, Verena Gill said was ...