Pragmatic competence—the ability to navigate the subtleties of social and cultural language use—remains a pivotal area in second language acquisition research. This aspect of language proficiency ...

I was recently reading The Happiness Hypothesis by psychologist Jonathan Haidt (2006). Haidt writes: “In all human cultures, the social world has two clear dimensions: a horizontal dimension of ...

What is the American character? We can approach this question by looking at some international philosophical stereotypes. Traditionally, the Germans are idealists, the French rationalists, the English ...

This essay engages the understudied Indian reformer, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956), in order to explicate pragmatism's influence in non-Western rhetorical situations. By charting the influence of ...