Andrew Joscelyne·Sep 26, 2023Linguistic 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…
Andrew Joscelyne·Sep 5, 2023The 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…
Andrew Joscelyne·Aug 13, 2023In 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…
Andrew Joscelyne·Aug 8, 2023Language 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…
Andrew Joscelyne·Apr 28, 2023Breaking 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…
Andrew Joscelyne·Mar 25, 2023In 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…
Andrew Joscelyne·Mar 21, 2023Something, 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…
Andrew Joscelyne·Feb 10, 2023Languaging 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…
Andrew Joscelyne·Jun 17, 2022L-o-nguageI want to speculate about the future of language in all its aspects — the tech, the sociology, the politics, and the chat.A response icon1A response icon1
Andrew Joscelyne·May 8, 2022Rising 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…
