Andrew JoscelyneLinguistic Landscapes: from old road signs to e-travelogues“Linguistic landscapes” is a sociolinguist’s term for the study of public signs and writings you find along country roads, in urban…6 min read·Sep 26, 2023----
Andrew JoscelyneThe Challenge of Localizing Science-WritingThere is a constantly growing issue in the global science education and research community: the problem experienced by non-native speakers…9 min read·Sep 5, 2023----
Andrew JoscelyneIn Plain Language: a new ISO standard for a generative age?After many years of promoting “plain language” (PL), mainly in the English-speaking world, the organizations behind “official” PL…11 min read·Aug 13, 2023----
Andrew JoscelyneLanguage value vs. language dataAs we constantly re-evaluate the way languages are used over time, especially on the internet in this generative-AI moment, we encounter…9 min read·Aug 8, 2023----
Andrew JoscelyneBreaking the Word Lines: Bill Burroughs vs. AI textualityBack in the hip 1960s, the renegade US writer William Burroughs came out with some sharp commentary on language as a virus and writing as a…4 min read·Apr 28, 2023----
Andrew JoscelyneIn Search of the Language SingularityThere’s talk in the air about the Language Singularity (LS), no doubt prompted by recent big-tech advances with LLM-based generative AI…5 min read·Mar 25, 2023----
Andrew JoscelyneSomething, somewhere, bit by bit: the language numbers gameThe Oscar-winning “Everything, etc.” film title tries to cover the whole works. This little commentary aims lower. As we constantly map how…7 min read·Mar 21, 2023----
Andrew JoscelyneLanguaging the Future: A provisional check-list of obstaclesWe are currently bewitched by the belief that “natural” language — a grammatical flow of intentional meaningfulness — can be extracted via…4 min read·Feb 10, 2023----
Andrew JoscelyneL-o-nguageI want to speculate about the future of language in all its aspects — the tech, the sociology, the politics, and the chat.1 min read·Jun 17, 2022--1--1
Andrew JoscelyneRising voices and the eclipse of writingTwenty years ago, the French cognitive anthropologist Dan Sperber predicted in L’avenir de la lecture et de l’écriture” that we will…17 min read·May 8, 2022----