The Semantics conference is one of the biggest events for all things semantics. Key research and industry players gathered this week in Leipzig to showcase and discuss, and we were there to get that ...

Epistemic modality refers to the linguistic means by which speakers express degrees of certainty, probability or belief regarding a proposition. It intricately links language structure with cognitive ...

Semantics are important. They tell us what something means. Without semantics you just have a jumble of syntax. The better defined the semantics are, the less likely something is to be mis-interpreted ...

If the rise of digital has made budgets more accountable, what are those accountable budgets being spent on? How can we be sure consumers’ behaviour is being influenced by advertising? Often the ...

In a small office two blocks from the University of Chicago campus, shiny-pated. khaki-clad Count Alfred Korzybski toys with an odd little implement. He calls it the “structural differential.” It ...

An amble through the neighborhoods of North Berkeley often turns into an introspection and a treasure hunt. On one such stroll, I and my fellow amblers stumbled across an empty, upturned flower pot, ...