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Join me on a journey from humanism to posthumanism with a focus on how we understand language, more-than-human communication, semiosis and i...

Join me in the pleasure of observing conversation, particularly times when people report the speech of others. They can do this using direct...

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...

What’s your favourite way to alleviate anxiety? Mine is tapping, also known as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Linguistically, tapping is...

Do you believe in fairies? In his 1911 book, American anthropologist Walter Evans Wentz hypothesises ‘tentatively’ that the invisible world...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Counting… that’s maths, right? Actually, it’s language. And as we’ll discover through a series of absurd tasks (like, ‘count everything you...

What’s the weirdest thing about human language? We explore linguistic polarity and all its bizarre implications. Embedded in every human gra...

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...

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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