I've been taking some time to digest the open vs. closed discussion (the context being Microsoft's new XML document format for Word, Excel and PowerPoint) that's taking place in various corners of the ...

Review of Fascism: The Career of a Concept, Paul E. Gottfried (Northern Illinois University Press 2016), 256 pages, ISBN-13: 978-0875804934; $39.92 on Amazon.com Words have power, and learning and ...

Even if you’re not a full-blown grammar nerd, you’ll find the origins of these words that changed meaning over time completely fascinating The English language is alive—and like any living thing, it ...

Perhaps it is not surprising that inviting people to reconsider the merits of disliked speech features generates a bit of controversy. After all, we are nothing if not wedded to our firm beliefs about ...

In a recent study published in Frontiers in Communication, researchers explored how mood influences the processing of relatively neutral discourse content. Study: Negative affect increases reanalysis ...

Um, don’t you get, you know, annoyed by verbal clutter? Nothing sinks a public speaker quicker than an overdose of ums and uhs. Professional yakkers are expected to purge their speech of such lexical ...