Quand les linguistes ont mal aux mots et quand l'État prend les citoyens pour des gamins ou on n'en finit jamais avec la langue de bois

Calvet Louis-Jean - When words hurt linguists and when the State takes its citizens for little children, or : there's no doing away with Newspeak. In the USA the fashion of "political correctness" has given birth to an oversimplification of the relationships between form and meaning : to think "correctly" today is easy, you just have to find the right words... And this naive analysis is answered for not only by the man in the street, but also by certain linguists. Faced with the rebirth of Newspeak, should linguists not be the first to criticize this futile confusion

Confusion · Epistemology · Humanities · Psychoanalysis · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology