In African American Vernacular English, words can take on layers of meaning. "Woke" is but one example. Every group has the ...

Woke ideology and political policies have been a target of President Trump and he vows he'll end them. What are they and ...

Quickly after its embrace, however, “woke” underwent what linguists call pejoration, by which a positive or neutral word takes on a negative meaning. In this case, it went from referring to ...

Evidence of the decline is that woke the adjective has been fully “nouned”. In addition to wokeness, we now find wokeism and wokery. The ending -ness might be fairly neutral but -ism and -ery are ...