The casual use of offensive language in public discourse is growing, but for some, an uncontrollable urge to curse might ...

Discourse Studies is a field that has been developing dynamically at the intersection of language and society. While discourse analysis is an established subfield within linguistics, discourse ...

Journal of Basic Writing, Vol. 21, No. 2 (FALL 2002), pp. 21-36 (16 pages) "Academic Discourse," "Hybrid Discourse"-these are contested terms. Recently, scholars in composition studies have begun to ...

Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) are widely used to measure speaking ability in a second or foreign language. The Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB) Speaking Test is an OPI used ...