Interview conducted by Aneta Pavlenko. Multilinguals are fascinating and have been the object of a few posts already on this blog (see here and here). Today, Dr. Julie Choi of the University of ...

This paper explores how multivocal appeals, meaning appeals that have distinct meanings to different audiences, work with respect to religious language. Religious language is common in politics, but ...

The Mellon Foundation has awarded three University of California, Santa Cruz, departments grants of $100,000 each for work that champions groundbreaking research in the realms of race, ethnicity, ...

Cosimo de’ Medici was the first of the Medici dynasty during the Italian Renaissance. Though he only held public office for a short while, thanks to his immense wealth and effective leadership style, ...