This is the debut edition of Civil Discourse, a new column where Isabella Pieretti and Conor Richards share their ...

Intelligibility and comprehensibility are assessed at the discourse level through analyses of read and conversational speech. Comprehensibility is influenced by segmental and suprasegmental aspects of ...

Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives ... made Zionist supporters of Israel feel unsafe, and were thus by definition uncivil. If students had only mastered the skills of polite civic ...