The jetset lifestyle of the psycholinguist???

Just read the most bizarre opening paragraph of any academic textbook i’ve ever seen

A man walks into a bar after a long trip. He phones his partner and says, “I’m here now”. His partner thinks he is in New York on a business trip, but in fact he has gone to London to play poker with his friend. Yet what he said was, strictly, true.

The Psychology of Language – Trevor Harley

what sort of lifestyle do psycholinguists lead?


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