The Strategic Linguist
The Strategic Linguist, Furensic Linguist Edith, Elina, TalkTime CroatianRevealing how language shapes power, markets, and competitive advantage | linguistic analysis from workplace dynamics to global strategy
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The Deflection Playbook
The Linguistic Lab Syllabi: #1
Welcome to the first in The Linguistic Lab Syllabi, where I piece together my work across the library to build a single learning arc out of pieces that were written and published separately
The Politeness Machine: What Brown and Levinson Actually Discovered
Someone tells you, calmly, that they’re giving you your time back. Someone else, mid-story, asks: “can I stop you there?” A third person, cornered on a specific and documented harm, tells you it wasn’t their intention. A fourth hedges an id...
How Standardisation Became Gatekeeping
The history behind the test, and what happens when a machine takes over grading it
Language planning and policy is the set of decisions institutions make about which language counts, whose version of it becomes the reference point, and who...
Fluent Enough to Pass: The Standard That Was Never Neutral
I started my adventure into linguistics by teaching English as a Foreign Language in Sri Lanka. I was rejected by my almer mater, a prestigious international school, even though I had the requirements: a British undergraduate degree. I was...
The Register That Runs on Someone Else’s Labour
The follow up to “Who Died and Made You CEO: Genre Mimicry, Epistemic Trespassing, and the Applause Machine”
The first post in this series introduced the genre, the evaluative stance, and Bourdieu’s counterfeit currency. This post is about...
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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.
Unlocking language & communication for you — with cattitude to make you smile.\ud83d\ude38It's linguistics through the lens of a cat lover. \ud83d\ude3b I have a PhD in Dialectology and am the author of "Purrieties of Language. How We Talk about Cats Online". \ud83d\udc3e
For managers stuck between knowing and doing. Leadership Capabilities System breaks leadership down to practice, so you can build the capabilities to lead with confidence and impact your role demands.
I'm Tihana. University professor, linguist, founder of TalkTime Croatian. I write about Croatian, culture, and the science of learning. Freely, and with pleasure. I also teach — when you're ready, you'll know.
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