For decades, scientists have asked whether language simply reports conscious thought or helps shape it. New insights from researchers at the University of Liège suggest the answer sits somewhere in ...

You've seen the signs at a baseball game: a catcher pumps his fingers between his legs in a blisteringly fast sequence to signal a pitch, or a coach does a mad dance, tugging an ear, patting his belt ...

A "hidden" language spoken by only about 1,000 people has been discovered in the remote northeast corner of India by researchers who at first thought they were documenting a dialect of the Aka culture ...

Excerpt from chapter 4, "The Magicians and Mimes of the Live Ball Era," in Paul Dickson's book, "The Hidden Language of Baseball": With the postwar ascendance of relief pitching, a tradition of ...