11Storytelling depends upon the pragmatics of communication inherent in a conversation: the ball gets hit back and forth across the netJune 4, 2023/3 Comments/in Bullying, Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Long Branch, Newsletter, Toronto/by Jaan Pill
12Carolyn Merchant (1980) outlines how Francis Bacon (1561-1626) fashioned a new ethic sanctioning the exploitation of natureOctober 19, 2022/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
13What do we know about mass murder?; what do we know about the philosophy of justice?; and how do we go about dealing with evidence?January 2, 2022/4 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
14Erving Goffman was impressed with Johan Huizinga’s study of the play-elements in cultureJuly 16, 2021/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
15As Erving Goffman has noted, what goes on in gambling establishments and risk-taking situations in general is worth close studyJuly 8, 2021/1 Comment/in Commentary, Committee of Adjustment, Toronto Local Appeal Body, Local Planning Appeals Tribunal, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
16The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes: A Conceptual Framework (2021)May 30, 2021/0 Comments/in Commentary, Language usage, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
17Updates regarding Sweden’s approach to COVID-19; Sweden’s rate of deaths per million is 6 times that of NorwayApril 21, 2020/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
18Awesome novel, “Where the Crawdads Sing,” portrays evocative, self-contained world [Note: Spoiler Alert]March 31, 2020/0 Comments/in Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
19As Suzanne Wertheim, linguistic anthropologist, notes: Our linguistic choices can amplify a message. Or they can muddy it, and lessen its impactMarch 26, 2020/0 Comments/in Commentary, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
20Ambiguous figures can serve as heuristic device for study of social construction of meaningDecember 1, 2019/1 Comment/in Commentary, Figure/Ground, Newsletter/by Jaan Pill
