Ever tried convincing someone to pick your favorite movie for movie night? Or maybe defended pineapple on a pizza? Whether you knew it or not, you were tapping into one of the oldest human traditions: ...

Understanding the type of speech you’re giving is the first step in the speech writing process. If you already know the genre of your speech, then feel free to move on towards the next step. If not, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Students analyze how Nicolás Maduro uses language to transform Hugo Chávez from a former president into a powerful historical and moral symbol. The ...

Donald Trump's vocabulary and trademark phrases can be superficially amusing, but his rhetoric has incited violence and hate.

A new study published in Nature Human Behaviour has found that speeches in the U.S. Congress have increasingly relied on emotional and subjective language over the past several decades, drifting away ...