The Ideophone is an irregularly updated blog by Mark Dingemanse, Associate Professor in Language and Communication at Radboud University Nijmegen.

You can reach me at `firstname.lastname@ru.nl`. If you’d like to learn more about my work, check out my publications (for the academic point of view) or my press page (for my mission to make linguistics accessible to popular audiences).

I have a strong interest in the digital humanities, and have helped realise several online projects over the years. Examples are Verba Africana (2008), the L&C Field Manuals and Stimulus Materials (2010), and the information portal The Semioticon (2012).

The photo in the header was taken in San Francisco in 2009.