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Research project tracks social and geographical variations, creating digital tool to explore Qatari dialect usage Languages are a main driver of personal interactions and intercultural communication, embodying heritage and reflecting the development of civilizations and societies.

Visa-free visits and student bursaries would undermine Putin's police state, writes Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies).

Linguists at Cardiff University are working with data experts to develop a free bilingual online platform to analyse survey data.

Q&As Erik Rolfsen Turns out, some words are more tactile than you might expect. That's according to a new global study noting a clear linguistic connection between sound and touch. The study found that words meaning "rough" were four times more likely to contain a rolled or trilled 'r' sound than words that mean "smooth." The researchers detected this relationship in a sample of 332 spoken languages around the world, including words like zakarra (Basque), barzgar (Mongolian), ruw (Dutch) and durva (Hungarian).

How often has Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting novel being translated in another language? Which countries around the world have the biggest interest in Robert Burns? What has been the worldwide impact of

Cultura The volume Weltliteratur i literatura comparada.

In his new book,  La révolution du magazine au Québec , the University of Toronto's  Adrien Rannaud  demonstrates how one of Quebec's first magazines reflected and advanced literature and culture from 1919 to 1960 - and how its impact is still evident today.

Filming of The Handmaid's Tale at the Lincoln Memorial.

A 200-year-old vampire has been found in a University of Queensland library.

Around the globe, 360 million people learned English as their mother tongue and another 990 million picked it up as their second language.