N. J. Enfield

University of Sydney — Australia

Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies(97), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(80), Linguistic Variation and Morphology(53), Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation(44), Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies(30)

Publications324 total

Multimodality’s role in nano-scale niche construction
Gesture·2025Open Access
Legibility and Agency
American Anthropologist·2025
Legibility in culture
Anthropological Theory·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
The enchronic envelope.
Psychological Review·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Party season is coming. Here are 2 ways to make small talk less awkward
2024
Moorings
Current Anthropology·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Consequences of reflexivity in language
Kerns Verlag eBooks·2024Open Access
Flow Piracy and Percolation in a Hydropower Watershed: Interceptions of Indigenous Languages in Upland Laos
Annals of the American Association of Geographers·2023Open Access
Interactive repair and the foundations of language
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2023· 39 citedOpen Access
Scale in Language
Cognitive Science·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
The limits of thematization
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Shared cross-cultural principles underlie human prosocial behavior at the smallest scale
Scientific Reports·2023· 21 citedOpen Access
Beyond Single‐Mindedness: A Figure‐Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences
Cognitive Science·2023· 61 citedOpen Access
Linguistic concepts are self-generating choice architectures
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2022· 10 citedOpen Access
Consequences of Language
The MIT Press eBooks·2022· 27 citedOpen Access
Enchrony
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
Language vs. Reality
The MIT Press eBooks·2022· 20 cited
Action and Accountability in Interaction
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2022· 3 cited
The unbearable heaviness of being Kri: house construction and ethnolinguistic transformation in upland Laos
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute·2022· 9 cited
Misinformation: an empirical study with scientists and communicators during the COVID-19 pandemic
BMJ Open Science·2021· 21 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Stephen C. Levinson(9), Mark Dingemanse(6), Tanya Stivers(5), Makoto Hayashi(5), Penelope Brown(4), Simeon Floyd(4), Giovanni Rossi(4), Jack Sidnell(4), Julija Baranova(3), Kobin H. Kendrick(3), Asifa Majid(3), Sotaro Kita(3), Christina Englert(2), Makoto Hayashi(2), Trine Heinemann(2), Gertie Hoymann(2), Federico Rossano(2), Kyung-Eun Yoon(2), Seán G. Roberts(2), Joe Blythe(2)