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Language and ‘politically correct’ usage
1993A new term to describe an alleged type of social behaviour and its accompanying use of language came into prominence in the late 1980s — politically correct. The ‘correctness’ of politically correct language implied in the use of the term is different from the meaning of ‘correct English’ discussed in chapter 1.
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Viewpoints: Politically Correct Language in Health Care
The Meducator, 2016Winning Pro and Con submissions for first MeduCombat ...
Mobeen Mubasher, Xinglin Li
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Special Language and Political Correctness
British Journal of Special Education, 1994Dr Jenny Corbett, Department of Education and Community Studies, University of East London, looks at the way in which the language used in relation to special educational needs has changed and evolved since the 1960s, taking articles published in the predecessor to the BJSE over 25 years ago,
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`Political Correctness': the Politics of Culture and Language
Discourse & Society, 2003In this article, I approach the controversy over `political correctness' (PC) in terms of three questions: a socio-historical question, a theoretical question and a political question as follows. (1) Why this apparently increasing focus in politics on achieving social and political change through changing culture and changing language - what has ...
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Language rights: Not political but scientific correctness
English Today, 1998TOVE SKUTNABB-KANGAS replies to Anthea Fraser Gupta (‘Language rights’,ET50: Apr 97) regarding issues of linguistic ...
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Teaching Politically Correct Language
2004The article deals with the problem of using an inclusive language in class. The main types of language changes in the English language are given and classified.
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Identifying discourse patterns in social media comments on “politically correct” language
Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, 2020Abstract This paper presents an analysis of online comments on German newspaper articles dealing with non-discriminating language use. Combining bottom-up quantitative methods with qualitative analyses allows for identifying recurrent discourse patterns as well as typical narratives that play a role in this debate.
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Political correctness in the English and Russian languages
2020The article is devoted to the current problem of political correctness. The purpose of the article is to study the features of the use of euphemisms as a language means of implementation of the phenomenon of political correctness in the English and Russian languages. Significant attention is paid to the analysis of specific examples of euphemisms which
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Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education
Abstract The trend of political correctness, which originated in the United States and spread through academia and mass media, has now taken over public policies in the European Union. Similar to what is happening in some Western nations, the norms of speech are being reshaped to conform to political correctness.
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Abstract The trend of political correctness, which originated in the United States and spread through academia and mass media, has now taken over public policies in the European Union. Similar to what is happening in some Western nations, the norms of speech are being reshaped to conform to political correctness.
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Political correctness, euphemism, and language change: The case of ‘people first’
Journal of Pragmatics, 2011Abstract The early 1990s saw the proposal for ‘people first’ language: premodified nouns (disabled people) were to be replaced by postmodified nouns (people with disabilities). This usage was widely adopted in the fields of education and psychology.
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