The goal of my video project for the course Language in US Society, embedded above, was to emphasize how the meaning of words -especially slang - have adapted beyond having only one meaning through ...

Word of the Day: Rare words endure because they capture experiences that ordinary language often struggles to express ...

Much of the time that we think we are talking about “issues,” we are actually talking about words. One side will argue against one definition of a word, while the other side argues in favor of a ...

Discourse and pragmatics explore how language functions beyond sentence-level grammar and literal meaning, focusing on how utterances are shaped by context, social norms and speaker intentions.