THE difference between English and American practice in the use of some of our commonest words is an interesting study, on which much has been written. There is one aspect of this subject, however, ...

The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is renowned for his innovative and creative thinking, making his works both challenging and enriching. In The Logic of Sense, first published in 1969, he explores ...

A sentence must never be interpreted out of context, as any scholar knows. It is pointless, furthermore, to suggest that separate sentences are true out of a context of linguistic and nonlinguistic ...

The question of whether music can activate brain mechanisms related to the processing of semantic meaning information has remained unanswered 1. The present study investigated semantic priming of ...

There is no question that my love of language is an inherited trait. My father was a lay linguist, in addition to being a teacher, writer, and public intellectual. In the last few years of his life, ...

Christina Maher does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

In the glitzy world of tech, OpenAI’s ChatGPT is undoubtedly stealing the limelight. This A.I. dynamo boasts impressive feats in language generation. But while it might wow with its wordplay, it can ...

Always the need has been to stay in the concrete, the practical, the everyday, so as to find hints of the invisible through the visible. The infinite levels in Shakespeare, for instance, make his ...