Media: An Intelligent Man's Answer to Linguistic Truisms
| Submitter: |
Micah Smith
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| Submitter Email: | duryalai@gmail.org |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
General Linguistics |
| Media Body: |
Here is an article which fascinated me. Every single one of the linguistic truisms about linguistic equality we hold so dear are taken to task, by a non-linguist. And I found myself thinking that, even though he doesn't know all the details or the finer points of the theories he discusses, he shows a real, though non-expert, understanding of them. I came away thinking: he'll make linguists mad, but this guy's got a point. http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_4_urbanities-language.html |
| Issue Number: | 18.45 |
| Date Posted: | December 28, 2006 |
