t is known quite well that language is not only a medium of communication but also a tool of power. Therefore, the relationship between language and power is of cardinal importance in modern literary ...

My wife’s maternal grandparents were a Rajput and a Malayali. Her mother married an Andhra, her sister a Punjabi. Their son’s wife is Algerian, our son’s is a Scot. That should make for a babel of ...

Exhibition view of Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s “Disputed Utterance” (2019) at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart; © Lawrence Abu Hamdan (courtesy Maureen ...

Ever since his 1989 film Do the Right Thing opened with Rosie Perez’s boxing-inspired dance to Public Enemy’s Fight the Power, Spike Lee’s cinema has been driven by the tensions between power and race ...

We all know that – as the poet said – ‘the times they are a-changing’. Yet throughout these blogs I have been talking about human values and sensibilities that Greek scientists and philosophers ...

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 ...