Supreme Court's Stance on Political Language During a recent hearing regarding a political comment, Chief Justice Surya Kant ...

We live in a world dominated by the sound bite, the clip and all things scrollable. To facilitate this shortened content, different groups have had to find creative ways to convey great meaning in ...

When we talk about civil discourse, we often hear that term as a call to discuss controversial topics with a level of tact and grace that dignifies and respects our conversational counterpart. We ...

Language, materiality and social discourse converge in a dynamic field of study that examines how words, objects and visual forms collaborate to shape meaning in society. Rather than treating language ...

Discourse relations—both explicit, as marked by connectives and cue phrases, and implicit through juxtaposed text segments—are integral to the coherent interpretation and processing of language. These ...

Death Valley, Calif., shattered the record in July 2023 for the hottest temperature on earth. Meanwhile, July 2023 is now the hottest month in recorded history and scientists have noted heat waves are ...

Sometimes in 1994 or thereabouts, General Sani Abacha was Head of State. His regime inherited all the ambassadors of the previous government as was normally the case until his regime settled down to ...

Large language models (LLMs) are artificial intelligence (AI) systems that can understand and generate human language by analyzing and processing large amounts of text. In a new essay, a Carnegie ...

Michiko Kaneyasu received her Ph.D. in Japanese linguistics in 2012 from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her research interests include formulaic language, discourse and grammar, corpus ...