Words have bones
A basic manual of endolinguistics: how to look inside your own language and learn languages by recognizing them. Free.
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Alejandro Toledo Martínez · Endolinguistics researcher and author
Three paths into one question
How meaning appears before we can name it. Alejandro Toledo Martínez pursues that question through linguistics, philosophy and fiction.
Endolinguistics and language
The study of meaning before the concept: sound, rhythm, body and memory in the organisation of sense.
Philosophy and essays
An ontology of appearing, thresholds between irreducible domains, and an epistemology of what learning actually requires.
Speculative fiction
Historical espionage, philosophical cyberpunk and geopolitical thrillers that carry the same questions into story.
Books
Theory of Endolinguistics
Foundations and applications of endolinguistics: the study of the deep structures of language beneath its observable surface.
Psychophonology
How thought becomes sound: language as a psychic, logical and musical system of sound relations. Phonology kept the half you can count; this book recovers the other.
Theory of the Topology of the Qualic Field
Some words are not related, and yet they meet. Drawing on nearly 4 million words from 3,405 languages, this book asks where, how and why.
The Language Before Words
How does human meaning take shape before words — and what can genuinely be shared between two minds?
Cryptological Sociolinguistics
Political dog-whistles, platform algospeak, persecuted-community cryptolects: a falsifiable science of messages that say one thing and carry another.
“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self.”