Episode 114 The linguistics of loss
Join me on a journey from humanism to posthumanism with a focus on how we understand language, more-than-human communication, semiosis and i...
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20 of 100 episodesEpisode 113 We are all grammatically distant
Join me in the pleasure of observing conversation, particularly times when people report the speech of others. They can do this using direct...
Episode 112 Love language
To what extent is who(m) you’re allowed to love analogous to syntactic structure? In this episode I explore the idea that human beings, in i...
Episode 111 The linguistics of tapping
What’s your favourite way to alleviate anxiety? Mine is tapping, also known as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Linguistically, tapping is...
Episode 110 Clap if you believe in fairies
Do you believe in fairies? In his 1911 book, American anthropologist Walter Evans Wentz hypothesises ‘tentatively’ that the invisible world...
Episode 109 What makes you so special?
The paradox of being human in a Western, settler, colonizing culture is you’re supposed to be special and… you’re not supposed to be special...
Episode 108 Adulting, and stuff like that
Conversations with final-year university students has brought back all the fears that I had in my mid- to late twenties about having to be a...
Episode 107 Heaven and Earth
The idea that human language comes from the land is not new. It’s rooted in Indigenous ontologies of language. But for those of us who haven...
Episode 106 Prosody and peak experiences
Have you ever had a peak experience? Did you ever try to tell someone about it? Also, how good is your singing voice? If you’re a native spe...
Episode 105 Given, new and the selfless know-it-all
What if you could know everything, but you had to lose your self in the process? We discuss two layered structures in human languages. The f...
Episode 104 Consciousness is more than just a little cutie pie
Do human beings have more or less consciousness than the rest of the living world? Is language an addiction? We’ll explore both points by ex...
Episode 103 Inhabiting language
In this episode I’ll try to convince you that using language to express the self is like a dog chasing its own tail… or a snake eating its t...
Episode 102 How to belong
Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? My own red thread through the labyrinth of linguistics has been the theme of not belonging. We exp...
Episode 101 You, me and big egos
What’s the difference between me and you? And what’s so bad about big egos, anyway? In this episode we explore the relationship between ego...
Episode 100 Selfish wishes for social change
What are your top three wishes? Are they selfish? As it happens, your wishes may be worse than selfish—they may be toxically self-effacing....
Episode 99 Linguistics and astrology
What new language would you most like to know? Is astrology on your list? Does astrology count as a language? Maybe the language of the star...
Episode 98 Linguistic singularities
Counting… that’s maths, right? Actually, it’s language. And as we’ll discover through a series of absurd tasks (like, ‘count everything you...
Episode 97 The intimacy of denial
What’s the weirdest thing about human language? We explore linguistic polarity and all its bizarre implications. Embedded in every human gra...
Episode 96 The Earth’s language
We start the episode, as always, with a couple of questions: There’s an answer to Question 2 that will be true for anyone who says it. ‘I am...
Episode 95 Your name without language
What would your name be without language? In this episode we explore the problem of names in truth conditional semantics, with a look at Got...
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