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It shouldn't come as a surprise that the Oxford Dictionary has named "rage bait" its Word of the Year. The quantity of ...

A large study of 800 adults shows that pragmatic language skills—the ability to understand sarcasm, indirect requests, tone, ...

In everyday conversation, it's critical to understand not just the words that are spoken, but the context in which they are ...

I just said: ‘look, stay positive and don't react now’,” Edwards said following the reception to Strand Larsen being ...

Back in May 2024, a black studies professor — an academic of the type who writes dissertations about the semiotics of Beyonce — “clapped back” at one of her peers, a white man who had dared ...

Fighting invasive oral cancer at age 51 forced Sotinsky to confront the existential importance of the human voice. Her unique ...

The comedian is chafing against playing a pretty girl in a wig on “S.N.L.” In her new HBO special, “Sarah Squirm: Live + in ...

Frustrated with the state of America, some on the Right have come to embrace postliberalism, an ideology that seeks to ...

In Hal Hartley’s new film Where to Land, a 58-year-old director of romantic comedies applies to become a groundskeeper at a ...

There is bipartisan fury in Congress today over stealth legislation offering million-dollar windfalls to a handful of senators whose office phone records were accessed as part of the federal ...

Performative reading” has gained a curious notoriety online. Is it a new way of calling people pretentious, or does it reflect a deprioritization of the written word?