Allegory is a widely used communicative device, where a single story could be read as having two storylines: one literal, and another figurative. It is... Read More

Many authors writing on slurs think that they are lexically rich, in the sense that their lexical meaning comprises both a descriptive dimension and an... Read More

Despite the difficulty of ascertaining the manipulative intent of text producers, early pragmatic and discourse approaches (e.g. de Saussure, 2005) only focused on text producers... Read More