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Who Speaks in AI Writing?
Something that worries those of us who study discourse and language, especially now, as AI becomes…
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When Language Assumes Too Much
A short story about AI, refugee claims, and linguistic profiling I was looking for a case.…
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What Makes Chávez and Trump the Same?
Displacement, Scaling, and the Sacralization of Political Authority There is nothing unusual about the moralization of…
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Is a Tomato a Fruit?
Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893) Some legal questions are easy to mock. They arrive…
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A Protocol for the Representation of Proper Names and Toponyms in Multilingual Forensic Contexts
In multilingual investigations, proper names are rarely stable. They appear with variation, omission, transliteration, and adaptation.…
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What Is the Difference Between CDA and Forensic Discourse Analysis?
It is a reasonable question. If both Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Forensic Discourse Analysis (FDA)…
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“Give Me a Lawyer, Dog”: A Case of Linguistic Ambiguity
How a spoken utterance became a legal problem—and what it reveals about meaning in institutional contexts…
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When “Virginity Curtain” Almost Meant a Death Sentence
On translation, terminology, and the dangerous assumption of lexical equivalence There is a word in English…
