Jodie Clark
@JodieClarkLing
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Author of Refreshing Grammar. Linguist at Sheffield Hallam University. Writer of fiction about the intimacy embedded in language. She/her.
Sheffield, England
Joined August 2015
Do you, like me, find words impossible? Have you ever had writer’s block? And are you free this Friday evening? You are very welcome to join me for my free online workshop The impossibility of words: a linguist’s cure for writer’s block with @otsfestival.
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RT @CwjonesChris: I’ve always admired writers who can articulate their practice in thoughtful & intricate ways. This week in The Two-Way Po….
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In each episode Chris Jones invites a poet to introduce a poem by an author who has influenced his, her or their own approach to writing. The poet discusses the importance of this work, and goes on...
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I've been enjoying both seasons of the Two-Way Poetry podcast by @CwjonesChris. and this interview with Mark Pullinger in particular. (Full disclosure: Mark's my husband and the interview took place in our kitchen.)
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In this episode, poet Mark Pullinger discusses Shinkichi Takahashi’s poem ‘Sparrow in Winter’ (translated by Lucien Stryk) and two of Mark’s poems: ‘Magus’ and ‘Untitled’. In the interview, we talk...
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A child trades his family’s only food source for a handful of seeds. The seeds grow into a language that reaches a world in the sky. New flash fiction at Grammar for Dreamers:.
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It was a drunken conversation with my science fiction reading group that got me wondering about what the A in AI really stood for. When I got home I typed a tipsy question into my app. We are alien…
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RT @otsfestival: In this interactive online workshop, linguist and fiction writer @JodieClarkLing will share her unique perspectives on the….
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Episode 103 of Structured Visions, ‘Inhabiting language’ is out now! Join me on a ramble through phrasal verbs, conceptual metaphor theory, ESL and the idea that human language is a one-dimensional structure that shapes the self and limits consciousness.
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This week we're on Unit One, 'What a three-year-old taught me about grammar'. Come join us!
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A benevolent docent appears and leads Sophia to a quiet, spacious room, empty but for one word. Inhabit. The in sits more stably as prefix to the Latin-derived verb, Sophia observes, than as particle in the Old English equivalent, dwell in.
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Photo by Claudio Testa When celebrated linguist Dr Sophia Lindstrom dies, her soul is brought to the Museum of Language, which displays everything she’s ever said, written or thought in her life. T…
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‘Refreshing Grammar made language come alive.’. Refreshing Grammar is a free, easy-going six-week course designed to help you discover what you already know about grammar. Come join us for the 2024 session, open now!. @drofletjess.
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The Refreshing Grammar course is an easy-going, relaxed approach designed for teachers, writers and other creative people. It’s also completely free.
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‘Refreshing Grammar has transformed my teaching and enabled our students to achieve much more and gain higher marks in their writing. Best CPD I have had on grammar ever.’. Refreshing Grammar 2024 is now open! #freecourse. @LitdriveUK @Team_English1.
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The Refreshing Grammar course is an easy-going, relaxed approach designed for teachers, writers and other creative people. It’s also completely free.
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Have you ever felt like you don’t belong? My own red thread through the labyrinth of linguistics has been the theme of not belonging. Episode 102 of Structured Visions, How to belong, is now available!.
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In a moment of triumph I found the loophole. ‘Is language made of language?’. She nodded sagely. ‘It’s language all the way down.’.
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Photo by Sergiu Vălenaș ‘Everything is made out of language,’ Mad Gran said. She may as well have said everything is made from elastic bands, for all I understood. But I loved her, no matter how cr…
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‘The last stage in the Earth’s evolution,’ she intoned, ‘was the formation of human language. It enveloped human bodies like space suits.’.
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Photo by Nate Holland ‘Go tell your grandmother the good news,’ Mum said, and begrudgingly I obeyed. I was given sweet marjoram and lemon balm tea, the leaves freshly plucked from Gran’s herb garde…
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The young are still wrapped in language, but the complements are insults, and no one thinks to unwind them. (New #flashfiction on my blog!).
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In the old days, the more hopeful days, when we knew the power of language, the second person came first. We would wrap the child in a cocoon of benedictions, the grammatical structure unchanging: …
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‘Language forms a circle, the circle is undone, and then another circle is formed. So the unidimensionality of language does not have to constrain. It can also create a space.’. Episode 101 of Structured Visions, ‘Me, you and big egos,’ is now available!.
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There was no turning back. Ego had wormed its way into the garden of human consciousness.
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Photo by Kasper Rasmussen The Bright Angels had just lost their war against the Dark over the fate of humankind. They were forced to concede to the Dark side’s plan to give the humans language. The…
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I’ve just published the 100th episode of Structured Visions! Listen to ‘Selfish wishes for social change’ wherever you get podcasts. #100episodes.
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Inside they believe can be found one last mystery, the wish before the wishing utterance, the desire of language itself.
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Image in the public domain, accessed from The Met The first human language was found in a cave in sub-Saharan Africa. Ala, having stubbed her toe on something hard, reached down to find a vessel hi…
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