According to noted linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, many linguists claim that language does not exist. On Friday, Chomsky, a Penn alumnus, delivered a lecture titled “Should we study ...

Theoria is an engaged, multidisciplinary and peer-reviewed journal of social and political theory. Published every quarter, its purpose is to address, through academic debate, the many challenges ...

FEW disciplines are so strongly associated with a single figure: Einstein in physics and Freud in psychology, perhaps. But Noam Chomsky is the man who revolutionised linguistics. Since he wrote ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Noam Chomsky’s wife, Valeria Wasserman Chomsky, says reports Tuesday that the famed linguist and activist had died are untrue. “No, it is false,” she wrote Tuesday in response to an ...

After satirizing everything from “radical chic” to 20th-century architecture, Tom Wolfe is now mining the mystery of language and the reputation of the most influential linguist of our time, Noam ...

Who's afraid? Me. But let’s press on anyway. Noam Chomsky is a polarizing figure in modern intellectual life. Best known in popular discourse for his radical critique of U.S. foreign policy, he has ...

Noam Chomsky’s yearlong silence has been mystifying to his legion of readers, including those of us who take a perverse joy in muttering: “There he goes again!” The world-renowned American linguist, ...