The right of dissent and difference of opinion is the essence of democracy. It is the basis on which democracy flourishes. However, it is equally important that the choice of words used to express ...

The House of Representatives passed a resolution this month honoring Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist and close Trump ally who was shot to death Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University. The ...

The MAGA superstar and conservative activist Charlie Kirk is dead. He was assassinated on Wednesday during a campus event in Utah. There’s so much to say about this terrible incident. At the same time ...

Spoken language, especially spoken German, is rich in particles that do not contribute to the propositional content of utterances, but play important roles in steering the flow of the dialogue and in ...

We investigate the development of word order in German children's spontaneous production of complement clauses. From soon after their second birthday, young German children use both verb-final ...

We study the supply of fiscal ideas leveraging thousands of electoral platforms from 65 countries in the Manifesto Project to link how political parties discuss fiscal policy with fiscal outcomes. We ...

Abstract: The presented research focuses on the functioning of color names in poetic discourse of English Romanticism and is intended to disclosing the stylistic, imagery and cognitive potential of ...

This study employs a corpus-based approach to examine and compare the use of two discourse markers (DMs), “you know” and “I mean”, within the context of two mediatised English political interviews.

Derek Gladwin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Canada First Research Excellence Fund in Canada. Kedrick James receives funding from the Social Sciences and ...

Living organisms have a knack for persisting in the face of challenges. For instance, when genes malfunction, organisms may be able to compensate by activating redundant genes with similar functions, ...