Sharroky Hollie seeks validation and affirmation of the nonverbal language practices our students bring with them During my early academic studies in linguistics, I was introduced to the six ...

All these perspectives require training in the formal properties of language, including phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. Courses on “generative grammar” attempt to describe ...

I joined DMU in 2015 and am a VC2020 senior lecturer in English Language. My research interests are pragmatics and philosophy of language, specifically the nature of word meanings and concepts, and ...

Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...