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Linguistics graduate
Woke, gay, atheist & Anglo-French.
I write a lot on Linguistics
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Antoine #LinguisticallyYours #FBPE @a-d-62.bsky.social · 5d
Liberation Linguistics: Language as a Site of Emancipation
The words we speak, the accents we carry, the dialects we inherit are not just communicative tools but markers of identity, dignity, and belonging. Yet they are also sites of discrimination.

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Liberation Linguistics: Language as a Site of Emancipation
Language, Power and Justice
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Liberation Linguistics: Language as a Site of Emancipation
The words we speak, the accents we carry, the dialects we inherit are not just communicative tools but markers of identity, dignity, and belonging. Yet they are also sites of discrimination.

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Liberation Linguistics: Language as a Site of Emancipation
Language, Power and Justice
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November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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A critical discourse analysis of Steven Miller's speech at Charlie Kirk's memorial service with echoes of discursive strategies used in periods of democratic crisis, including fascist mobilisation in the twentieth century.

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Language, Power, and the Shadow of Fascism
Steven Miller at the Charlie Kirk Memorial
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September 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Can Bourdieu still explain how language shapes inequality?
My latest: Pierre Bourdieu: Promises and Problems
A sociolinguistic framework that provokes more questions than answers.
#Linguistics #CriticalTheory #SymbolicCapita open.substack.com/pub/linguist...
Pierre Bourdieu: Promise and Problems
Reassessing Linguistic Power, Practice, and Inequality
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September 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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The Continuous Nature of Polysemy
Traditional linguistics got polysemy wrong. Words don't have fixed multiple meanings. They exist on continuous spectrums. BERT and other AI models show how human meaning-making actually works. #linguistics #semantics #cognitivescience
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The Continuous Nature of Polysemy
Challenging Traditional Boundaries in Contemporary Linguistics
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August 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Gadamer saw understanding as dialogue, not solitude, shaped by language, history, and shared horizons. #Hermeneutics #Philosophy #Linguistics
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Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Language of Understanding
Hermeneutics, history, and the shared act of meaning-making in human dialogue.
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August 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Otto Jespersen shaped how we teach grammar, word order & language change, yet most linguists barely mention him.
Visionary or relic? His ideas on efficiency & typology still echo today, but so do his biases.
Should we reclaim his legacy or leave it buried?
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Otto Jespersen
The Hidden Architect of Modern Grammar
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August 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Ever fallen in love with language? This isn’t about grammar rules—it’s about the architecture of speech, the politics of words, and the poetry of "innit"
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Falling in Love with the Science Behind What We Say
The Linguist's Gaze
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August 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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I just published Beyond Simple Categories
Linguistics Typology reveals the boundaries of human language, what’s possible, what’s common, and what’s rare. It helps us understand both the diversity and the underlying unity of human linguistic capacity.
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Beyond Simple Categories
Linguistic Typology
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July 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Construction Grammar challenges traditional linguistics by treating language as stored patterns rather than abstract rules. Explore this very different approach.

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#Linguistics #grammar
July 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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We are not just losing lives. We are losing the language to mourn them.
Gaza. Israel. Humans first.
Read my piece : “Losing Our Humanities”
#Linguistics #Gaza #Israel #Philosophy #WarLanguage
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Losing Our Humanities... One Sentence At A Time
Language, thought, and war are unmaking compassion
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July 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Robert Stalnaker: Shaping Meaning through Context
A critical analysis of Robert Stalnaker's influential work on common ground and conversational context. Does his formal framework capture how we actually communicate? #Pragmatics #PhilosophyOfLanguage open.substack.com/pub/linguist...
Robert Stalnaker: Shaping Meaning through Context
Pragmatics, Possible Worlds, and the Dynamics of Conversation
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July 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Critical Discourse Analysis is a useful tool for linguistics to understand language beyond structure and look at it as *social practice*.
Updated from the article first published in 2024.
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When Is an Apology Really an Apology?
Linguistic Analysis of an Apology
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July 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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He stripped linguistics down to science. No introspection. Just patterns, data, and rigour.
Was he brilliant, or blind to meaning?
Read more 👉
Leonard Bloomfield: Describing Language Without Meaning open.substack.com/pub/linguist...
#Linguistics #Bloomfield #Language
July 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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He tried to challenge racist science, insisted every language deserved study on its own terms, and founded modern descriptive linguistics.
Yet, very few have heard of him!
Franz Boas: Language, Power, and the Limits of Cultural Relativism
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#linguistics #Anthropology
Franz Boas: Language, Power, and the Limits of Cultural Relativism
Pioneer, Linguist, Ethnographer, Controversial Humanist
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July 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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I am always puzzled that when I go and see my doctor he greets me with "are you well?".
The clue is that i have an appointment!
Just me?
July 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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I just published Why Language Keeps Cleaning Itself Up

What drives "verbal hygiene", our collective impulse to ‘clean up’ language, to correct grammar, remove offensive words, or enforce ‘proper’ usage?

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Why Language Keeps Cleaning Itself Up
Verbal Hygiene and the Euphemism Treadmill
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July 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Parmenides had a radical idea: you literally cannot talk about things that don't exist. This creates chaos for modern linguistics. How do we discuss Santa Claus, Sherlock Holmes, or "what if I had wings"? New article explores this 2,500-year-old puzzle 👇
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Parmenides and the Limits of Linguistic Reference
An Ancient Challenge to Modern Semantics
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June 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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It wasn’t ‘project fear’ it was project reality - The cost of Brexit is now clearer than ever.
lizwebster.bsky.social Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · Jun 23
9 years on from the Brexit vote, the verdict is in and predictions correct:

🕳️£40 billion hole in public finances
📉4% hit to UK productivity
📦15% drop in trade
💷 £100bn in tax rises—40% of which Brexit made necessary

Happy Brexitversary! 🇬🇧🎉

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Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’
Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist
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June 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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The battle of thoughts? Continental Vs Analytical Philosophy
Derrida in the right corner Vs Searle in the left corner.
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Crossed Words: Derrida, Searle, and the Clash Over Meaning
The Debate That Reshaped the Philosophy of Language
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June 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Traditional question: How did humans develop language?

Better question: How did language reshape what it means to be human?

The "recursive feedback model" shows language as both product AND driver of cognitive evolution
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Language Evolution
How Grammar Rewrote the Human Brain
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June 27, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Am i the only to think that a doctor (medical) greeting me with "are you well?" is very odd?.
Were I, I wound not be having an appointment!
June 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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From Convention to Context
Language works because we expect it to. David Lewis saw communication as a coordination game based on social convention—not fixed rules.
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From Convention to Context
David Lewis and the Philosophy of Language
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June 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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I was listening to the French radio this morning, for a couple of hours. This agreement between the EU and the UK was not top of the news. Nowhere to be found on the main page of Le Monde online, nor Le Figaro, nor Liberation.
May 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Too many of our representatives do not attend Parliament. We deserve proper representation from MPs .
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Require MPs' attendance in parliamentary debates
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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May 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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More on #Linguistics
Karl Butler.
He challenged the idea that linguistics should focus purely on internal structures. Instead, he asked what language is for
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Karl Bühler and the Functions of Language: From Theory to Use
The shift from static structure to human communication
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May 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM