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  • Linguistics Lounge #5: Linguistics x Gender Inequality

    October 27, 2026 · 49 min

    🛋️ Welcome to the Linguistics Lounge The Linguistics Lounge is where I talk to other writers on Substack about how language works in their fields and areas of expertise. From therapy to philosophy, billingualism to localisation—we’ll be…

  • Linguistics Lounge #4: Linguistics x Philosophy of the Mind

    October 13, 2026 · 54 min

    🛋️ Welcome to the Linguistics Lounge The Linguistics Lounge is where I talk to other writers on Substack about how language works in their fields and areas of expertise. From therapy to philosophy, billingualism to localisation—we’ll be…

  • The Linguistics of the Sale: Why “No Pressure” Can Feel Like a Hard Sell

    September 29, 2026 · 35 min

    This breakdown of sales language includes: * Why the most pressured sales pitch you’ll get this year won’t contain a single command * How the exit clause and the gift frame, two moves you already know from the meeting room, carry a sales…

  • Let’s Just Chat: What Goffman Discovered About the Frame Around Every Conversation

    September 22, 2026 · 25 min

    This post is about what’s actually happening underneath a phrase you’ve heard a hundred times — “let’s just chat” — and the specific ways a linguistic frame can shift under you before you’ve said a word. * Why “let’s just chat” can turn a…

  • Linguistics Lounge #3: Linguistics x Therapy

    September 15, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

    Welcome to the Linguistics Lounge 🛋️ The Linguistics Lounge is where I talk to other writers on Substack about how language works in their fields and areas of expertise. From therapy to philosophy, billingualism to localisation—we’ll be…

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  • The Sentence That Works Twice: What Implicature Does to a Listener

    September 8, 2026 · 23 min

    We’ve covered the framework this sits on in Part One, this post will cover where the chasm of meaning gets swallowed in one big gulp by implicature: * Why a sentence like can sit in a meeting doing real damage while remaining, on paper, a…

  • The Unspoken Contract: What Grice Discovered About Conversation

    September 1, 2026 · 26 min

    Today, we’re going to learn about a Grice’s Maxims of Cooperative Speech * Every message has two layers: what’s said, and what’s meant on top of it. The second does most of the work. * The maxims aren’t rules for speaking. They’re…

  • Measuring Up: The Curry Powder Test

    August 25, 2026 · 19 min

    When I first started writing about linguistics, I gave myself a break every few posts to be a little more like Rebecca and a little less like The Strategic Linguist. They are, for the record, the same person but TSL is a very specific part…

  • Damned Either Way: What Robin Lakoff Discovered About Women’s Language

    August 18, 2026 · 29 min

    “Stop hedging,” a manager says, in the kind of feedback session that gets called constructive, “and just tell me what you think.” He isn’t asking her to clarify her level of confidence in the recommendation. What he actually means here…

  • Right, According to Whom: What Foucault Discovered About Discourse and Power

    August 11, 2026 · 20 min

    A rightsizing announcement. A rejection for "culture fit." A promotion panel that decides someone doesn't quite have "leadership presence." Three sentences that sound like observations about the world. None of them are — each one is…

  • Why No One Takes a Position Alone: What DuBois Found in The Stance Triangle

    August 4, 2026 · 26 min

    This breakdown of DuBois’s stance triangle includes understanding: The three things every stance does at once — evaluate an object, position the speaker, align with whoever’s listening — whether anyone in the room notices or not What a…

  • What I'm planning to build for The Linguistics Lab

    August 1, 2026 · 24 min

    Honestly, my plan was to come on here for 15 mins to talk you through what I’m planning to build for my paid tier and so many of you turned up! Just me. A few notes and one question, what do you need from me? Thank you Viktoria Verde, PhD…

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