Philippe Schlenker 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 👨🏫
@phschlenker_ac
Senior Researcher, Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS, Paris Views expressed are my own. Retweet ≠ endorsement.
A presentation by CNRS of my book "What it All Means" (MIT Press, November 2022), and a very thoughtful review by linguist Marc van Oostendorp. Merci!
Semiotics 2.0. In "What it All Means", @phschlenker_ac argues that the contemporary science of meaning, formal semantics, can now offer a general theory of signs for spoken languages, sign languages, gestures, animal communication and even music inshs.cnrs.fr/en/cnrsinfo/se…
The protests began over a bill (№12414) that puts NABU and SAPO, Ukraine’s independent anti-corruption bodies, under the control of the Prosecutor General, who is appointed by the President. KSE students also joined this meeting. 2/
Octopuses are reported to fall for the "rubber hand" illusion. Very interesting new paper in @CurrentBiology by Sumire Kawashima and Yuzuru Ikeda. Links below. 1/
Hundreds of Israelis are now marching in the center of Tel Aviv against the starvation of Gaza at the hands of the Israeli government. Some are holding sacks of flour.
The Hamburg Parliament apologizes for past injustices against Deaf people. deaf24.com/en/hamburg-apo…
A workshop on formal approaches to multimodality in Dublin in December, organized by Valentina Colasanti. This should be a great opportunity for discussions at the intersection of linguistic theory and multimodal studies:
Formal Linguistic Approaches to Multimodality Workshop in Dublin. Abstract submission deadline: 15 August 2025
Reminder: Gallot on olive colobus grammar in the Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris. Please register here if you wish to attend: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Online Seminar on Animal Linguistics on Tuesday, July 22, 5pm Paris: On an experimental basis, we are organizing a seminar on Animal Linguistics, on Zoom only, world-wide. Speaker: Q. Gallot, Alarm call sequences in olive colobus: a primate grammar enabling incremental processing
In a new op-ed for @nytimes, professor of Holocaust and genocide studies @bartov_omer explains why he believes "Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people," something Israel denies: nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi… Back in December, I spoke with Professor Bartov about…
The “humanitarian city” that Israel’s defense minister has proposed building on the ruins of Rafah would be a "concentration camp," and forcing Palestinians inside would be "ethnic cleansing," says Israel’s former prime minister Ehud Olmert. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…
This morning, @HaMokedRights, together with 12 other Israeli human rights organizations sent a joint letter to EU HR/VP @kajakallas and the 27 EU Foreign Ministers ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council. Here is our message 🧵
+972 Magazine just exposed that the IDF is using drones to police expulsion orders across Gaza, with soldiers testifying they deliberately target civilians so others will ‘learn’ not to return. A thread with some of their chilling testimonies 🧵 972mag.com/drones-grenade…
A "humanitarian zone" built on the ruins of an entire city that was systematically razed to the ground. Just like ethnic cleansing has become "voluntary migration", death traps have become "aid distribution sites", and blown up children have become "collateral damage".
MIT on Haj Ross, a great, great linguist who died in May 2025: whamit.mit.edu/2025/05/19/joh…
A wonderful person, a great linguist. My deepest condolences to everyone that knew him whamit.mit.edu/2025/05/27/joh…
« Je ne supporte plus que certains considèrent qu'entre Mélenchon et moi, c'est un simple problème personnel. J'ai été meurtri de faire face, au sein même de ma famille politique, à un manque de soutien. » Interview de @JeromeGuedj dans @LePoint ⬇️ lepoint.fr/politique/jero…
