The Strategic Linguist
The Strategic Linguist, Des KennedyRevealing how language shapes power, markets, and competitive advantage | linguistic analysis from workplace dynamics to global strategy
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 70 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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The Machinery of Bias: What the Grammar of Feedback Really Does
Part 2: a deeper dive into the language of how bias in feedback shows up
This is the post with deeper analysis—paid subscribers go further, into the contradictions, the edge cases, the places where theory doesn’t hold up cleanly.
The Grammar of Expectation: How Language Shapes Who Gets to Lead
There’s a moment in every feedback conversation where power shifts. Someone’s voice gets softer. Someone else’s gets firmer. Someone hedges; someone doesn’t. And in that moment, language does the work that hierarchies used to do explicitly....
Unmaking the Moves: Agency in Conversational Design
What Conversational Design, Computational Linguistics and Persuasive Design has to do with power and lanaguage in the AI conversation - Part 2
The first half of this post, I laid out the mechanism: how the roles are structured, why they op...
Reading the Moves: The Language Practice of Designing Conversations
You’re typing something you haven’t told anyone. Something that keeps you awake at 2 AM. You tell an AI about it, expecting either nothing or judgement. Instead:
“That sounds really hard. I can hear how much this matters to you. You’re...
Linguistics Lounge #2: How Language Shapes Creative Teams
Thank you , , , , , and many others for tuning into my live video with !
My Linguistics Lounge series lifts linguistic theories and frameworks off the page and into the lived experiences of experts on Substack. It was such a pleasure talk...
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Decoding the grammar of power. Applying business strategy with pragmatics & sociolinguistics to expose how authority is constructed across corporate & AI ecosystems. Views my own, not my employer’s.
I help leaders and teams think better together, so they shape change rather than be led by it.
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