Johnny Depp is gearing up for a seriously ambitious literary leap with plans to produce and potentially star in the first ...

Arthur Sze, the national poet laureate appointed by the Library of Congress last month, visited Queens College, in Flushing, ...

A large study of 800 adults shows that pragmatic language skills—the ability to understand sarcasm, indirect requests, tone, ...

In everyday conversation, it's critical to understand not just the words that are spoken, but the context in which they are said. If it's pouring rain and someone remarks on the "lovely weather," you ...

Johnny Depp is set to produce and possibly star in the first English-language adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic 'The ...

It’s that time of the year when PBS News Hour invites two of our regular literary critics, Ann Patchett and Maureen Corrigan, ...

Our alumni have used their English majors to pursue further study and earn advanced degrees from such impressive institutions as Cambridge, Denver Publishing Institute, Emory, Harvard Law, Johns ...

Audio Producer Jakob Wayson sits down with UT student writers and creatives to discuss the importance of authentic human ...

It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus.

Abstract: In the context of a more linked and globalized society, the significance of proficient cross-cultural communication has been increasing to a position of utmost importance. Language functions ...

The U.S. peace plan presented to Ukraine appears to have been translated from Russian. The syntax of certain phrases are more common in the Russian language, such as the third point of the 28-point ...