New Europe Film Sales has acquired “How to Divorce During the War,” ahead of its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival ...

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, ...

The volley of vulgarities underscore an ever-coarsening political environment that often plays out on social media or other ...

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

"Gloving," a dance subculture based around light-up gloves, has blown up on TikTok recently, mostly because of memes making fun of the EDM raver activity. Moreso, meme creators have dug up the word ...

The young German actor was working in experimental theater and ready to quit acting. Then he received an invite to audition ...

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 ...

The Qatari Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, pushed back on claims that his country supports or ...

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 ...