LONDON Elaborate symbols drawn on to amulets and tablets by the Indus Valley civilisation belong to an unknown language, according to a new analysis by researchers. The controversial claim raises the ...

Whether you’re paying attention or not, you’re surrounded by symbols. Part of high-level Japanese is recognizing when these symbols with deeper meanings or certain implications appear in daily life, ...

In this video, Ghana’s best-known contemporary artist, El Anatsui, speaks about the role that language and symbols play in his work. He describes how the abstract nature of West African “adinkra” ...

BEIJING--A top Chinese official said Thursday that “all-round efforts” are needed to ensure Tibetans speak standard spoken and written Chinese and share the “cultural symbols and images of the Chinese ...

When tweeters use hashtags, they tend to be more formal and drop the use of abbreviations and emoticons. But when they use the @ symbol to address smaller audiences, they're more likely to use ...

Archaeologists discovered a basalt tablet about the size of a piece of paper bearing 60 unknown script characters expertly ...

As the semanticist S.I. Hayakawa stressed in his classic book Language in Thought and Action, words are not the things they represent. Words are symbols. It’s the manipulation of those symbols that ...

A Coast Guard personnel directive updated language identifying symbols of racial or religious hatred, setting off a political ...