We all take language for granted, yet we rely upon it throughout our lives in order to perform a range of functions essential to our daily lives.

In his second novel, Binet has set himself an even harder task. “The Seventh Function of Language” is a pulpy thriller, with all that designation entails. Suspicious deaths? The novel opens in ...

Yet researchers who study the evolution of language and the psychology of swearing say that they have no idea what mystic model of linguistic gentility the critics might have in mind. Cursing ...

The political economy of language teaching: by Gamini Keerawella (Based on a speech delivered at the BCIS Language Awards Ceremony 2023) The Bandaranaike Center for International Studies (BCIS) has ...

What ensues is a shaggy dog detective story involving a document Binet imagines Barthes writing when he died: the key to the seventh function of language, a never fully developed supplement to the ...

"The Seventh Function of Language," a novel by French author Laurent Binet, is getting the feature film treatment.

Laurent Binet's second novel, The 7th Function of Language, takes as its starting point the accident that fatally injured Barthes, who was struck by a laundry van as he was crossing the Rue des ...

Laurent Binet's new novel starts with the death of French literary critic Roland Barthes and spins out a postmodern mystery packed with philosophical heavy hitters — and one bemused detective.

Indispensable to effective daily communication, the two functions of language.