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Press

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2013
  • Enfield, N. J. 2013. Rejoinder to Daniel Everett. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
2012
  • Enfield, N. J. 2012. Diversity disregarded. Science, 337, 1295-1296. doi:10.1126/science.1225365. PDF here.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2012. Review of “Language, culture, and mind: Natural constructions and social kinds”, by Paul Kockelman. Language in Society, 41(5), 674-677.
  • Enfield, N. J. & J. Sidnell. 2012. Collateral Effects, Agency, and Systems of Language Use (reply to commentators). Current Anthropology, 53.3, 327-329.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2012. The slow explosion of speech [Review of the book The origins of Grammar by James R. Hurford]. The Times Literary Supplement, March 30, 2012(5687), 11-12. PDF here.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2012. Language innateness [Letter to the Editor]. The Times Literary Supplement, October 26, 2012(5717), 6. Language Innateness
2011
  • Enfield, N. J. 2011. Books that live and die [Book review]. Current Anthropology, 52(1), 129-131. PDF here.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2011. Credit tests [Review of the book You are not a gadget by Jaron Lanier]. The Times Literary Supplement, February 18, 2011, 12.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2011. Hidden delights [Review of the book How pleasure works by Paul Bloom].
  • The Times Literary Supplement, January 21, 2011, 30-30. PDF here.
2010
  • Enfield, N. J. 2010. Without social context? Science, 329(5999), 1600-1601.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2010. Review of Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning by Jürgen Streeck. Pragmatics & Cognition, 18(2), 465-467.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2010. Human sociality at the heart of language [Inaugural lecture]. Nijmegen: Radboud University Nijmegen.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2010. Burnt banknotes [Review of the books Making the social world by John R. Searle and The theory of social and cultural selection by W.G. Runciman]. The Times Literary Supplement, September 3, 2010, 3-4. PDF here.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2010. Lost in translation [Letter to the editor]. New Scientist, 207 (2773), 31.
2009
  • Enfield, N. J. 2009. Social motives for syntax. Science, vol. 324, p39.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2009. Review of Serial Verb Constructions, edited by Aikhenvald and Dixon. Language 85.2, 445-451.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2009. Common tragedy [Review of the book The native mind and the cultural construction of nature by Scott Atran Douglas Medin]. The Times Literary Supplement, September 18,2009, 10-11.
2008
  • Enfield, N. J. 2008. Review of Constructions at work, by Adele Goldberg. Linguistic Typology, 12.1, 155-159.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2008. Language as shaped by social interaction. (Comment on Christiansen and Chater, ‘Language as shaped by the brain’.) Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31.5, pp519-520. doi:10.1017/S0140525X08005104
  • Enfield, N. J. 2008. It’s a leopard! (Review of MacNeilage The Origin of Speech and Hurford The Origins of Meaning.) Times Literary Supplement, September 12, 2008, 12-13.
2007
  • Enfield, N. J. 2007. Review of Grammars in Contact, edited by Aikhenvald and Dixon (CUP, 2007). Studies in Language.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2007 Review of Ethnopragmatics, edited by Cliff Goddard. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. Intercultural Pragmatics 4.3, 419-426.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2007. Invited comment on ‘Agency’, by Paul Kockelman, Current Anthropology, 48, p392.
2006
  • Enfield, N. J. 2006. Review of Laughter in interaction, by Philip Glenn, 2003. Linguistics, 43.6, 1195-1197.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2006. Review of Nicole Kruspe, A grammar of Semelai. Linguistic Typology 10.3, 452-455.
2005
  • Enfield, N. J. 2005. Reply to commentators, Current Anthropology, 46.1.
  • Enfield, N. J. 2005. Invited comment on ‘Explorations in the deictic field’, by William F. Hanks, Current Anthropology, 46.2, 212.
1997
  • Enfield, N. J. 1997. Review of Give: a cognitive linguistic study, by John Newman. Australian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 17, No. 1, 89-92.
  • Enfield, N. J. 1997.  Review of Plastic glasses and church fathers: semantic extension from the ethnoscience tradition, by David Kronenfeld. Anthropological linguistics, 39.3, 459-464.