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Jan 14, 2025 | 
nautil.us | Julie Sedivy
Join ADVERTISEMENT Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. or Join now . Communication The surprising forces influencing the complexity of the language we speak and write.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
psyche.co | Julie Sedivy
Time pressure and the limitations of memory compel you and your listener to engage in a fascinating linguistic trade-offIt seems obvious that the shape of a bird has everything to do with its struggle against gravity. Its entire physiology bears witness to the triumph of flight despite the tug of Earth’s forces. Less obvious, perhaps, is the fact that human language is shaped by an equally powerful force acting upon it: the stricture of time.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Julie Sedivy |Maylis de Kerangal |Tony Tulathimutte |Cebo Campbell
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Julie Sedivy
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisementAs a young linguistics professor, I once had a woman come up to me after the first lecture of a course I was teaching. She let me know she wouldn’t be continuing with the class. She was a poet, she said by way of explanation, and thus was put off by the overly analytical approach to language she had just witnessed. She told me was not interested in “dissecting” language.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
nautil.us | Julie Sedivy
Join ADVERTISEMENT Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. or Join now . Communication The true container of the human soul. Sign up for the free Nautilus newsletter: In my first year of university, I had the sense that my future was assembling itself into semi-solid form and all I had to do was point myself in its direction as it continued to harden into reality.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Julie Sedivy
There it is: the moment when I find myself thigh-deep in the squelch of memory, feet held fast, thrashing about for the word that eludes me. No amount of effort enables me to take a step forward, back, to the side, anywhere I might gain a fresh perspective from which to spot the missing word. I’m stuck. In the blank space where the word should appear, a vision of my linguistic future begins to gather like a thunderhead on a summer day.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nautil.us | Julie Sedivy
1 Language Reveals Our Genius For Connecting With Each Other Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . I confess that when I first signed the contract to write Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love, I wasn’t entirely sure I could write it. Linguaphile is a fusion of science writing and memoir, a genre that tries to make sense of life by examining the ingredients of one particular life.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Julie Sedivy |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
Sedivy blends a tender memoir with a fascinating study of how language defines the human condition. A remarkable book about how language is an essential trait of human beings—and also one of the most mysterious. In her fourth book, Sedivy, a Canadian academic specializing in linguistics and psychology and the author of Memory Speaks and Language in Mind, takes a personal tack, recounting how her life has been focused on the search for the essence of language.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Julie Sedivy
Before meaning Do you want to see our rabbits? asked Maura, my new friend, who at four years of age outpaced me by a year. She was speaking Italian, which I did not speak. I nodded. She brought me to a pen outside the barn with a mass of rabbits at its center. Looking closely, I could make out a few individuals, small clumps of fur huddled against the rabbit pile. Do you want to see some bigger rabbits? she asked, still in Italian. Again, I nodded.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
ragazzo.substack.com | Julie Sedivy |Freda Kreier |Tina Saey |Dan Samorodnitsky
Welcome to LINKS — my attempt to provide Rhapsody readers with five interesting stories that tell us something about what it means to be human . LINKS is published every Wednesday. Have a link you want to share? Drop it in the comments. By Julie Sedivy, Nautilus“When there’s no obvious communicative intent—if a disembodied voice intones a word over a speaker while a child is gazing at an object—the child is disinclined to map the word onto the object.
