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Nick Enfield

Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, director of Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre, and author of Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists.

Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, and author of Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists.

Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, director of Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre, and author of Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists.

Professor at the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, and author of Language vs. Reality: Why Language is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists.

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