Contumacious reminds readers that language can differentiate between types of dissent. Some resistance is spontaneous; some is ideological; and some, as the word suggests, is a conscious challenge to ...

Liu, Y. and Luo, Y. (2026) A Corpus-Based Study of Musicality in Zhu Shenghao’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Four Great Tragedies. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 425-438. doi: ...

What is word stress and how do we use it? In words with more than one syllable, there’s usually at least one syllable that sounds clearer or more obvious. Maybe it’s stronger, louder or higher. For ...

In Ecuador, where three out of five cannot read or write, few are eligible to vote, or able to read a newspaper. Three years ago, the National Journalists’ Union decided to do something about it. By ...

The laugh-out-loud workplace comedy “30 Rock” (2006–2013) averaged more than seven jokes per minute, using the gamut of gags to get guffaws. Beyond a spectacular cast (Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy ...