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.

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 second novel, The 7th Function of Language, starts with the accident that fatally injured Barthes, who was struck by a laundry van in Paris on February 25, 1980.

It is perhaps not as obviously accessible as HHhH, but The 7th Function of Language makes clear that Binet enjoys ideas and facts, and his zany, highly visual imagination ensures that even the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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