Political discourse has a language problem. Though it’s easier than ever to share ideas and engage in conversation, almost any prolonged discussion about national or global issues will involve some ...

In a noisy school cafeteria, two children speak over the conversations and clanging utensils happening around them. While many observers may see the children talking and think their ears are doing all ...

Roughly 8-9% of young children have a speech sound disorder, which results in difficulties producing speech sounds correctly and often has no known cause, according to the National Institute on ...

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In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of ...

Discourse relations—both explicit, as marked by connectives and cue phrases, and implicit through juxtaposed text segments—are integral to the coherent interpretation and processing of language. These ...

A new study shows that for 25 percent of young adults given a psychological assessment, the 2016 US presidential election race between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton caused symptoms often seen in ...

Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 21, No. 2 (FALL 2002), pp. 21-36 (16 pages) "Academic Discourse," "Hybrid Discourse"-these are contested terms. Recently, scholars in composition studies have begun to ...

Discourse Studies is a field that has been developing dynamically at the intersection of language and society. While discourse analysis is an established subfield within linguistics, discourse ...

Derek Gladwin receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Canada First Research Excellence Fund in Canada. Kedrick James receives funding from the Social Sciences and ...