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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...
What happens when we die? Ideas about the afterlife (or the lack of an afterlife) requires theory building based on either faith or experien...
Is there a distinction between you and the rest of the world? Where do you stop and the rest of the world begin? What’s the meaning of the w...
When was the last time you lost language? And… how do you feel? The one time it feels like I’m losing language is when I let myself feel wha...
Linguistic interaction involves much more than simply sharing information. It requires shaping the information so that it will fit in to a p...
What’s the worst relationship you’ve ever been in? What’s the difference between this and that? There are at least three ways of understandi...
‘Dreams, it turns out, are like clauses. They can be configured and reconfigured in an infinite number of ways. They are quanta of informati...
What’s your most mortifying experience of grammar shaming? Mine involved a misplaced apostrophe in an important email, and I still burn with...
If you were told, definitively, that you were an alien, would it relieve a burden? Would it explain, or affirm, a few things? Would you look...
When you were a kid, was there something that inspired wonder in you? Is there anything that has inspired wonder for you more recently? For...
What makes Ouija boards spooky? Is it language? After all, it’s the letters of the alphabet that take up the most space on these devices, an...
Where’s home? What’s your first language? What was your language before your first language? Join me to explore linguistic frames of referen...
How often have you prepared for a job interview by articulating your weaknesses? Apparently describing yourself as an empathic sponge who ab...
A question for the writers among us (writers of anything—novels, memoirs, short stories, theses, academic articles, monographs): What’s your...
‘What are your pronouns?’ How often do you get asked that question? How does it make you feel to be asked? When did the question first start...
Is nothing sacred? What images or memories does this question conjure for you? Also, what are your aims? (Don’t answer that. This is not a s...
In this episode I share what I believe are my most radical ideas, which normally I try to hide so that people don’t think I’m crazy: We’ll t...
Have you ever been in love? And if you could send a message to outer space, what message would it be? We’ll use these questions to guide us...
What propels you, what drives you, what directs you in your life? Is it inner guidance? Or is it some external power or sense of exterior ob...
Where do you get your ideas? The question presumes instrumentality and exchange, as if you could take a trip to your favourite high street s...
What’s your relationship to religion? This could be a tricky question, for lots of reasons. People may not understand your faith. People may...
Is there anyone in your life who truly ‘gets’ you? What’s your favourite fairy tale? Have you ever received guidance from a wiser, more lovi...
How is language like water? Both are all around us. Both are within us. Both have fascinating structuring mechanisms that we may not know mu...
Have you ever entertained an apocalypse fantasy? The one I invented relieves humanity of its language. Language produces selves, which is no...
Ferdinand de Saussure likened language to a collective treasure that every member of the linguistic community can draw from without its stor...
Happy New Year! The end of the year is a great time for reflection. Why not reflect upon the meaning of life? Or, even better, why not refle...
‘It’s easy to forget,’ said Sir David Attenborough in his address to COP26, ‘that ultimately the emergency climate comes down to a single nu...
In this episode we’re going to address three questions. What’s a word? What did it feel like when life first emerged on the Earth? When’s th...
When did you learn that the earth travels round the sun and not the other way round? And when you talk to yourself, which one of the dialogu...
Is an enlightened society a society without language? This episode explores what starlings can teach us about selves, the space that surroun...
Have you ever repeated a word over and over again to yourself to experience the dissolution of its meaning? What if you were to do that with...
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