Unlearning Languages that Control the Mind

Vladan Sutanovac

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Routledge
14 October 2025

linguistics; Language Teaching (non-ELT); Occupational & industrial psychology

The edited collection Unlearning Languages That Control the Mind (ULCM) is to be read as a continuous multi‑voiced work on what takes place when we forget that unlearning is a part of our existence as much as learning. As the world as we know it finds itself at a critical juncture yet again, how we talk about the continuously amassing genocidal invasions and authoritarian occupations of our minds, thoughts, bodies and environments will affect how we experience, process and counter them on a day‑to‑day basis. Based on this, ULCM offers its readers a singular interdisciplinary blueprint of the inner and outer workings of motivated language use when in service of mind engineering and engineered acting. As such, it is a valuable enabling resource for anyone looking to identify and unlearn the languages that mask belief traps and cognitive distortions set up by various antisocial actors to keep our day‑to‑day cognition and acting confined to society as engineered laboratory. With its interdisciplinary breadth and engaging multimodal content, this handbook breaks new grounds in actionable application of science as accessible community‑enabling tool for seeing through, i.e. dismantling belief traps and mental distortions that turn language use into mindbody abuse.

Edited by: Vladan Sutanovac
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.160kg
ISBN: 9781032493602
ISBN 10: 1032493607
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 14 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Vladan Sutanovac is a cognitive scientist, cognitive/experimental (ethno) pragmatist, cognitive semanticist and philosopher of language and mind. He holds a PhD in intercultural/cognitive pragmatics, cognitive/ethnosemantics and philosophy of language and mind; a soon‑in‑hand MSc in cognitive science; Mag. phil. in applied linguistics; and MA in English language and literature. His research focuses on the investigation of cognitive underpinnings of linguistic cultures, speech act use and abuse, meaning‑making practices across cultures as well as the micro‑phenomenological and neurophysiological underpinnings of affective perception/plasticity and affective disorders (with application in non‑invasive therapeutic practice).