Discourse Studies is a field that has been developing dynamically at the intersection of language and society. While discourse analysis is an established subfield within linguistics, discourse ...

Religion and politics are never polite subjects to discuss in mixed company. But imagine if what most people consider to be merely a social faux pas became the reason you were fired from your job, ...

It seems our country’s political discourse has devolved into the use of buzzwords intended to inflame people’s passions rather than initiate a constructive conversation. The problem with buzzwords is ...

This is the second in a series of five posts we are publishing this week as the co-authors of a new book from Oxford University Press titled "Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media ...

Discourse and power are related subjects. According to Iara Lessa’s summary of French social theorist Michel Foucault’s original definition, “discourse” primarily refers to “systems of thoughts ...