In the current post-truth era, impoliteness and verbal violence take new forms. The digital turn in communication and the rise of populism and extremism in politics are among the reasons behind this ...

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 ...

This is an interdisciplinary course, which blends linguistics, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and political thought for the purpose of exploring the concept of 'language' and its role in the ...

This article appraises the effects of gap position and discourse information in the acquisition of purpose clause constructions (PCs) by adult Francophones learning English as L2. L1 acquisition ...