ClíodhnaIn Irish mythology, Clíodhna (Clídna, Clionadh, Clíodna, Clíona, transliterated to Cleena in English) is a Queen of the Banshees of the Tuatha Dé Danann. Clíodna of Carrigcleena…View analysis →
SensationalismIn journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and…View analysis →
Vox (website)Vox (from Latin vōx 'voice') is an American news and opinion website owned by Lupa Systems. The website was founded in April 2014 by Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell…View analysis →
Baima languageBaima (autonym: Pe; Baima pronunciation: ) is a language spoken by 10,000 Baima people, in north-central Sichuan Province and Gansu Province, China. Baima is passed on from…View analysis →
MonophthongizationMonophthongization is a sound change by which a diphthong becomes a monophthong, a type of vowel shift. It is also known as ungliding, as diphthongs are also known as gliding…View analysis →
Political economy of communicationsThe Political Economy of Communications is a branch of communication studies or media studies which studies the power relations that shape the communication of information from…View analysis →
UcchusmaUcchuṣma (Chinese: 穢跡金剛; pinyin: Huìjì Jīngāng; Rōmaji: Eshaku Kongō) is a Vidyārāja in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.View analysis →
ChabiChabi (Mongolian: Чаби хатан, ᠴᠠᠪᠢ ᠬᠠᠲᠤᠨ; Chinese: 察必, c. 1216–1281) was a Khongirad empress consort of the Yuan dynasty, married to Kublai Khan.View analysis →
LitotesIn rhetoric, litotes (/laɪˈtoʊtiːz, ˈlaɪtətiːz/, US: /ˈlɪtətiːz/) is a figure of speech and form of irony to emphasize a point by stating a negative to affirm a positive. In…View analysis →
Task Force 11Task Force 11 (TF 11 or alternately Commander Task Force 11, CTF 11) is a designation that has been used by the United States armed forces for two separate units.View analysis →
Minimal pairIn phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, spoken or signed, that differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or…View analysis →
TheyIn Modern English, they is a third-person pronoun relating to a grammatical subject.View analysis →
Despatch riderA despatch rider (or dispatch) is a military messenger, mounted on horse or motorcycle (and occasionally in Egypt during World War I, on camels).View analysis →
SyllabaryIn the linguistic study of written languages, a syllabary is a set of written symbols that represent the syllables or (more frequently) morae which make up words.View analysis →
Sunwar languageSunuwar, or Koinch (कोइँच; kõich; other spellings are Koinch and Koincha), is a Kiranti language of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken in Nepal and India by the Sunuwar…View analysis →
CNN effectThe CNN effect is a theory in political science and media studies which states that global television networks, in their modern ability to provide live, 24-hours news coverage…View analysis →
Formal grammarA formal grammar is a set of symbols and the production rules for rewriting some of them into every possible string of a formal language over an alphabet. A grammar does not…View analysis →
Mixe languagesThe Mixe languages are languages of the Mixean branch of the Mixe–Zoquean language family indigenous to southern Mexico. According to a 1995 classification, there are seven of…View analysis →
Under-reportingUnder-reporting usually refers to some issue, incident, statistic, etc., that individuals, responsible agencies, or news media have not reported, or have reported as less than…View analysis →
False friendIn linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning. Examples of…View analysis →
CulottesCulottes are an item of clothing worn on the lower half of the body. The term can refer to either split skirts, historical men's breeches, or women's underpants. The culotte is…View analysis →
NewstalkNewstalk (formerly NewsTalk 106) is a national independent radio station in Ireland. It is operated by News 106 Limited, a subsidiary of Bauer Media Audio Ireland, and broadcasts…View analysis →
OxymoronAn oxymoron (plurals: oxymorons and oxymora) is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction…View analysis →
Grammatical relationIn linguistics, grammatical relations (also called grammatical functions, grammatical roles, or syntactic functions) are functional relationships between constituents in a…View analysis →
HomonymIn linguistics, homonyms are words that are either homographs, words that mean different things but have the same spelling (regardless of pronunciation); or homophones, words…View analysis →
StarshinaStarshina (Russian: Старшина, IPA: ⓘ or Ukrainian: Старшина, romanized: Starshyna) is a senior military rank or designation in the military forces of some Slavic states, and a…View analysis →
TransphonologizationIn historical linguistics, transphonologisation (also known as rephonologisation or cheshirisation, see below) is a type of sound change whereby a phonemic contrast that used to…View analysis →
Shona languageShona (/ˈʃoʊnə/ SHOH-nə; endonym: chiShona ) is a Bantu language spoken by the Shona people of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The term is variously used to collectively describe all…View analysis →
Parse treeA parse tree or parsing tree (also known as a derivation tree or concrete syntax tree) is an ordered, rooted tree that represents the syntactic structure of a string according to…View analysis →
IshqIshq (Arabic: عشق, romanized: ʿishq) is an Arabic word meaning 'love' or 'passion', also widely used in other languages of the Muslim world.View analysis →
Definite descriptionIn formal semantics and philosophy of language, a definite description is a denoting phrase in the form of "the X" where X is a noun-phrase or a singular common noun. The…View analysis →
DefinitenessIn linguistics, definiteness is a semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context (definite noun phrases)…View analysis →
Crow languageCrow (native name: Apsáalooke or ) is a Missouri Valley Siouan languages spoken primarily by the Crow Tribe in present-day southeastern Montana. The word Apsáalooke translates to…View analysis →
KrautKraut is a German word recorded in English from 1918 onwards as an ethnic slur for a German, particularly a German soldier during World War I and World War II. Its earlier…View analysis →
MorgenbladetMorgenbladet is Norway's oldest daily newspaper, covering politics, culture and science, now a weekly news magazine primarily directed at well-educated readers. The magazine is…View analysis →
