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Episode 41: Nick Enfield, professor of linguistics at the University of Sydney and director of the Sydney Social Science and Humanities Advanced Research Centre.
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N.J. Enfield is a prominent linguist and Chair of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. He is known for his research in linguistic anthropology, exploring the relationship between language, culture, and social interaction. Enfield has conducted extensive fieldwork in various parts of the world and has published his work in numerous scholarly journals and edited volumes. He has received several awards and honors for his contributions to the field, including a fellowship from the Australian Academy of Humanities and a prestigious grant from the European Research Council.
He is head of a Research Excellence Initiative on The Crisis of Post-Truth Discourse. His research on language, culture, cognition and social life is based on long term field work in mainland Southeast Asia, especially Laos. His recent books include Natural Causes of Language, The Utility of Meaning, Distributed Agency, and How We Talk.