Truth in political discourse is important as we deal with complex global issues, such as the COVID-19 virus, possible war with Iran, and the global warming crisis. Navigating between truths and ...

We have been arguing that conversational norms protect mutual trust, and that joint attention is essential to maintaining both. Gricean conversational maxims are linguistic norms that facilitate easy ...

On May 29, in a rare public statement, Special Counsel Robert Mueller made a number of claims, that were interpreted very differently by the different political camps. And the philosophy and ...

Pragmatics, the study of language in context, extends beyond the literal meanings of words to include the subtle inferences that speakers and listeners routinely make. A central phenomenon in this ...