Spoilers follow for Alien: Earth. One of the most controversial – or thrilling, depending on how you look at it – aspects of FX and Hulu’s Alien: Earth is that, for the first time on film, at least… ...

WHAT language might an alien use? As a speculative answer, Denis Villeneuve’s epic sci-fi movie Arrival couldn’t be more intriguing. Louise the linguist is asked to board a spaceship to interpret ...

Linguistics is one of the degrees most often dragged through the mud for being "useless," but The Lord of the Rings, one of the highest-grossing franchises of all time, might not have been possible, ...