Pragmatics, the study of language in context, extends beyond the literal meanings of words to include the subtle inferences that speakers and listeners routinely make. A central phenomenon in this ...

This week’s word is pragmatism. The idea is to trigger discussion or galvanise further research. Whatever your level of interest, it is a win-win situation for all. For argument’s sake, I shall be ...

Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 46, No. 1, PINK-TIDE GOVERNMENTS: PRAGMATIC AND POPULIST RESPONSES TO CHALLENGES FROM THE RIGHT (January 2019), pp. 167-189 (23 pages) The governments of Hugo Chávez ...

Synthese, Vol. 174, No. 1, LANGUAGE AND VAGUENESS (May 2010), pp. 79-98 (20 pages) Color adjectives have played a central role in work on language typology and variation, but there has been relatively ...

What began as an informal presentation by a clinical linguist to a group of philosophers, has led to some surprising discoveries about the communicative language abilities of people with Autism ...

All language teachers benefit from understanding of how language in general works. This course is designed to help students to understand and use in their language teaching the basic concepts, methods ...

Sample sentences have long been a standard feature of many online and offline dictionaries. Starting today, Google Translate will also feature sentences that put translated words into context. Unlike ...