“Miners refuse to work after death,” screamed the headline in a newspaper. So would I, one might well have thought, if I were dead! But the story sought to highlight a safety controversy at a mine: ...

An effective communicator conveys his/her message effectively and there is no ambiguity in his/her utterances. If the meaning intended is the same as the meaning conveyed by the writer/speaker and the ...

Explore the neural basis of humour, revealing how brain activation links to humor and semantic ambiguity in new fMRI studies. Previous studies, apparently, have shown that these kinds of jokes lead to ...