The late Brigitte Bardot provoked a wave of global outrage when she posed for photos in a bikini during the 1953 Cannes Film ...

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Good day, Nintendo Lifers. We're here once more to carefully open your digital missives as we open the door and put the little flag down on the Nintendo Life Mailbox. Got something you want to get off ...

The slogan “meaning is intrinsically normative” is regarded by several philosophers as capturing an essential feature of linguistic meaning. The normativity of meaning is supposed to constitute a ...

This article was produced for the Observatory by the Independent Media Institute. Danica Tomber is an applied linguist with a master of arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages from ...

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With all that in mind, try reading this: “Penelope Cholmondely raised her azure eyes from the crabbed scenario. She meandered among the congeries of her memoirs. There was the Kinetic Algernon, a ...

Julian Barnes is the author of 13 novels, including the 2011 Booker Prize-winning “The Sense of an Ending.” In 2017 he was awarded France’s Légion d’Honneur. The following excerpt has been adapted ...

Alice Franklin's new novel is a story told by an often-lonely little girl in the south of England who doesn't seem to see the world or hear its sounds or speak and think in the way other children do.

IN the last two weeks, we have been talking about language standards, standard language and linguistic prescriptivism. Besides one's (English) language teacher and a language editor, an average person ...