Every October, I end up looking for Halloween words. Sometimes it’s for a crossword puzzle or helping with a Halloween ...

The first full academic year offering an Oceti Sakowin language minor at South Dakota State University has already produced two graduates and is assisting in statewide efforts to preserve and ...

Spread the loveUnderstanding Semantics and Its Importance in Early Education At its core, semantics refers to the study of ...

This article delves into the origins of swear words, tracing their historical journey and exploring examples of how they ...

A high school Shakespeare unit, unsurprisingly, can lead to some hesitation for both students and teachers: The plays were ...

Artificial intelligence-based writing coaches have gained popularity as a way to give teachers quick feedback on hundreds of student drafts, reducing one of their most time-intensive tasks. But ...

In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about the ways that A.I. has changed their classrooms. Most felt despair over the breakdown of a ...

For some people, love is not fully felt until it is put into words. Words of affirmation, as a love language, fill that gap by turning quiet care into something real and noticeable. This love language ...

Continuing with our series of posts on adjectives and their communicative power, today’s post is all about adjectives to describe a house. As I explained in previous posts, adjectives, as research ...

The contents of this article are a pragmatic, simplified, and adapted version of John Austin’s (1962) work on speech act theory (SAT), first presented at Oxford University between 1951 and 1954 and at ...