Structured Visions

Jodie Clark
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New ways of thinking about social structure

  1. 2025-10-30

    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 information theory. We discuss Eduardo Kohn’s How Forests Think, specifically his ideas about the Earth’s open and emergent semiotic system, of which human meaning-making is a subset. We explore the idea of human language … Continue reading Episode 114  The linguistics of loss

  2. 2025-09-30

    Episode 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 speech, indirect speech or narrative reports of speech events. Here are examples of all three: Mrs Jenkins told the class shat she was cancelling the field trip (indirect) There was a roar … Continue reading Episode 113 We are all grammatically distant

  3. 2025-08-28

    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 initiating themselves into language, surrender the higher consciousness that the rest of the non-human world enjoys. This is a problem when it comes to love. If we see the world in … Continue reading Episode 112 Love language

  4. 2025-07-31

    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 fascinating, because it reveals an inherent contradiction that your body ends up resolving for you. When we tap into (pardon the pun) the world beyond language—our bodies, the earth—we access the worlds ‘created from silence’, … Continue reading Episode 111 The linguistics of tapping

  5. 2025-06-26

    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 of fairies should be examined ‘just as we examine any fact in the visible realm wherein we now live, whether it be a fact of chemistry, of physics, or of biology’ (pp. xvi-xvii). In this … Continue reading Episode 110 Clap if you believe in fairies

  6. 2025-05-29

    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. It’s a culture that’s clinging to the idea of human exceptionalism, which is the assumption that humans are better, smarter and more conscious than the rest of the world. Human language … Continue reading Episode 109 What makes you so special?

  7. 2025-04-30

    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 grown up. The secret to soothing those fears for me was… studying linguistics. More specifically, it was ‘like’ and stuff like that (discourse markers and general extenders). If you’re curious … Continue reading Episode 108 Adulting, and stuff like that

  8. 2025-03-27

    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’t grown up in an Indigenous culture and are swimming in the ideas of a Western, colonising culture, it can be very difficult to see language as anything other than … Continue reading Episode 107 Heaven and Earth

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New ways of thinking about social structure

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    Jodie Clark
  • Aktiva år
    2015 - 2025
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    © (c) Jodie Clark 2015
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