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Nick Enfield is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney and co-director of the Sydney Centre for Language Research. He is a member of multiple research centers including the Fighting Truth Decay node at the Charles Perkins Centre. His work focuses on language, culture, cognition, and social life through long-term fieldwork in mainland Southeast Asia, particularly Laos.
- 2023 PROSE Award for Language vs. Reality
- Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Royal Society of New South Wales, and Australian Academy of the Humanities
His research spans linguistic typology, pragmatics, and cognitive science, with recent publications on topics like legibility in culture, enchrony, and language’s impact on cognition. He has advised PhD students on L2 proficiency, endangered languages, and metaphorical representation in Mandarin.
Selected for his work on conversational repair and cross-cultural linguistic universals, he contributes to debates on truth, language evolution, and cultural transmission through empirical and theoretical publications in Science, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and Current Anthropology.
