STRATEGIC LINGUIST · COGNITIVE ANALYST · EDUCATOR

I make language legible. My work decodes how cognition shapes communication, and how communication in turn shapes decisions, institutions, and power.

Language is not just how we communicate; it is how we think. My research maps the cognitive architecture beneath rhetoric, policy discourse, and media narrative, producing a rigorous, applied toolkit for detecting manipulation, stress-testing messaging, authenticating authorship, and grounding AI systems in human conceptual logic.

I work at the intersection of cognitive science, linguistics, and strategic communication, translating academic depth into practical advantage for institutions that need to understand what language is actually doing.

The work takes four forms. In discourse analysis, I identify framing, polarization, and rhetorical strategy in political and media texts, from migration debates to Brexit to crisis communication. In authorship and authenticity, I apply structural methods to distinguish human-authored from AI-generated text, with applications in diplomacy, law, and high-stakes communication. In cognitive grounding for AI, I draw on embodiment theory to bring greater semantic coherence to large language models, contributing to explainable and conceptually plausible AI. And in language acquisition design, I build brain-based learning architectures that break through the intermediate plateau, now deployed across six languages in a multilingual textbook series.

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