As political polarization deepens in the United States, the language people use to discuss politics online is increasingly ...

The media is dangerously saturated with dogwhistles— sly, ideological messaging that invades our discourse, rhetorically ...

Left' and 'right' have been transformed into social markers that are wielded as political weapons. They also tell us little ...

In an eventful Cabinet address amidst a U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, President Donald Trump shared his fondness for Sharpie ...

The Supreme Court of India has expressed concerns over the increasing issue of litigants and lawyers using fake judgements generated by AI. This practice has reportedly become widespread globally, ...

This article summarises the results of a corpus pragmatic study, carried out as part of a doctoral thesis. Corsetti (2015) addressed the theme “conversational competence as a second language” due to ...

For centuries, the United States of America has been hailed as a paragon of pluralism and free speech. Unfortunately, earnest political discourse has become largely impossible in America, and ...

Abstract: In discourse, the elementary text spans are semantically connected by coherence relations. Discourse markers linguistically realize the coherence relations in the surface form. On the other ...

Perhaps it is not surprising that inviting people to reconsider the merits of disliked speech features generates a bit of controversy. After all, we are nothing if not wedded to our firm beliefs about ...