TitleA title is one or more words used before or after a person's name, in certain contexts. It may signify their generation, official position, military rank, professional or…View analysis →
NewsNews is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or…View analysis →
GuanyinGuanyin (Chinese: 觀音; pinyin: Guānyīn; Jyutping: Gun1 jam1) is a common Chinese name of the Bodhisattva associated with compassion known as Avalokiteśvara (Sanskrit…View analysis →
MantraA mantra (/ˈmæntrə, ˈmʌn-/ MAN-trə, MUN-; Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words…View analysis →
Boys' loveBoys' love (Japanese: ボーイズ ラブ, Hepburn: bōizu rabu), also known by its abbreviation BL (ビーエル, bīeru), is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that depicts homoerotic…View analysis →
YodelingYodeling (also jodeling or yodelling) is a form of singing which involves repeated and rapid changes of pitch between the low-pitch chest register (or "chest voice") and the…View analysis →
MexicansMexicans (Spanish: Mexicanos) are the citizens and nationals of the United Mexican States. The Mexican people have varied origins with the most spoken language being Spanish, but…View analysis →
Chinese charactersChinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Of…View analysis →
GermanisationGermanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people, and culture. It was a central idea of German conservative thought in the 19th and the 20th…View analysis →
Celtic studiesCeltic studies or Celtology is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to the Celtic-speaking peoples (i.e. speakers of Celtic…View analysis →
SemioticsSemiotics is the study of signs. It is an interdisciplinary field that examines what signs are, how they form sign systems, and how individuals use them to communicate meaning…View analysis →
BaalBaal (/ˈbeɪ.əl, ˈbɑːl/), or Ba'al (/bɑː.ɑːl/), was a title and honorific meaning "owner" or "lord" in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during antiquity. From…View analysis →
Irreversible binomialIn linguistics and stylistics, an irreversible binomial, frozen binomial, binomial freeze, binomial expression, binomial pair, or nonreversible word pair is a pair of words, used…View analysis →
VowelA vowel is a speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract. Vowels are one of the two principal classes of speech sounds, the other being the consonant. Vowels…View analysis →
Private EyePrivate Eye is a British fortnightly satirical and current affairs news magazine, founded in 1961. It is published in London and has been edited by Ian Hislop since 1986. The…View analysis →
Linguistic discriminationLinguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is the unfair treatment of people based upon their use of language and the characteristics of…View analysis →
PerformativityPerformativity is the concept that language can function as a form of social action and have the effect of change. The concept has multiple applications in diverse fields such as…View analysis →
StylometryStylometry is the application of the study of linguistic style, usually to written language. It has also been applied successfully to music, paintings, chess, and source code.View analysis →
LinguisticsLinguistics is the scientific study of language. Specific areas of linguistic description and analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics…View analysis →
NeiyeThe c. 350 BCE Neiye (Chinese: 內業; trans. "Inward Training") is the oldest Chinese received text describing Daoist breath meditation techniques and qi circulation. After the…View analysis →
Vowel harmonyIn phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological process in which vowels assimilate ("harmonize") to share certain distinctive features. Vowel harmony is often confined to the…View analysis →
Ejective consonantIn phonetics, ejective consonants are usually voiceless consonants that are pronounced with a glottalic egressive airstream. In the phonology of a particular language, ejectives…View analysis →
PhonemeA phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is a set of similar speech sounds that are perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single basic sound—the smallest possible phonetic…View analysis →
WordNetWordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms. The synonyms are grouped…View analysis →
GrammaticalizationGrammaticalization (also known as grammatization or grammaticization) is a linguistic process in which words change from representing objects or actions to serving grammatical…View analysis →
CausativeIn linguistics, a causative (abbreviated caus) is a valency-increasing operation that indicates that a subject either causes someone or something else to do or be something or…View analysis →
Genesis AwardsThe Genesis Awards are awarded annually by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to individuals in the major news and entertainment media for producing outstanding…View analysis →
AdpositionIn linguistics, adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for)…View analysis →
ReichReich (/raɪk, raɪx/ ryke, raikh; German: ⓘ) is a German word whose meaning is analogous to the English word "realm". The terms Kaiserreich and Königreich are respectively used in…View analysis →
School for Advanced Studies in the Social SciencesThe School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (French: École des hautes études en sciences sociales, EHESS) is a graduate grande école and grand établissement in Paris…View analysis →
GrammarIn linguistics, grammar is the system of rules that governs how a natural language is structured and used, as evidenced by its speakers or writers. Grammar rules may concern the…View analysis →
Language secessionismLanguage secessionism (also known as linguistic secessionism or linguistic separatism) is an attitude supporting the separation of a language variety from the language to which…View analysis →
GospelA gospel is a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words and deeds of Jesus Christ, culminating in his trial and death, and concluding with various reports of his…View analysis →
ZhenrenZhenren (Chinese: 真人; pinyin: zhēnrén; Wade–Giles: chen-jen; lit. 'true/ upright/ genuine person' or 'person of truth') is a Chinese term that first appeared in the Zhuangzi…View analysis →
FusilierFusilier is a name given to various kinds of soldiers; its meaning depends on the historical context. While fusilier is derived from the 17th-century French word fusil – meaning…View analysis →
Spanish profanityThe Spanish language employs a wide range of swear words that vary between Spanish-speaking nations and in regions and subcultures of each nation. Idiomatic expressions…View analysis →
