Will politically correct language save the world? In conversation with ACIPSS researcher and author Cordula Simon, Roberto De Lapuente, editor at Overton Magazine, explores the question of where reality and ivory towers are incompatible when it comes to linguistics. An extensive professional exchange about knowledge, scientificity, beliefs and desires, based on common assertions about language, thought, and action, and the scientific misconduct and errors this still entails in the humanities.
Link to the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sux5RRYCdHM
Link to the book Politische Korrektheit, Wunschdenken und Wissenschaft: Das Versagen der Universitäten im Diskurs um Sprache. OPEN ACCESS: https://westendverlag.de/DER-VERLAG/Politische-Korrektheit-Wunschdenken-und-Wissenschaft/
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