“Ohio.” “Brat.” “Cringe.” “Weird.” Coconut emojis. Viral memes are omnipresent this campaign season, distilling concepts, images and ideas into simple, replicable formats that spread rapidly online.

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 ...

When I was a youth living in New Jersey, prior to moving back to our family’s roots in Charleston, I did something that I never repeated. I said a foul word in front of my mother. A word that I had ...

What is the best tool for cult leaders to control other people? It’s the power of language. What do Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hitler have in common? They were all obsessively studied by Jim ...