Political Correctness and ideology: a cross-cultural linguistic study

Benassi, Giuliano

Political Correctness and ideology: a cross-cultural linguistic study

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Datum

1997

Autor:innen

Benassi, Giuliano

URI (zitierfähiger Link)

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-792

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Urheberrechtlich geschützt

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Green

Sammlungen

Linguistik

Publikationstyp

Masterarbeit/Diplomarbeit

Publikationsstatus

Published

Zusammenfassung

My aim in this thesis was to show that language and culture are not two distinct entities. In order to do this, I critically
discussed, in the first part, some of the assumption that are at the basis of an important part of the linguistic investigation in this
century: the distinctions between langue and parole, i.e. (abstract) language structure and language use; the notion of linguistic
structures and signs being arbitrary; the approach to linguistic relativity that considers relations between perception and
decontextualized language structures (thus excluding context to a large extent)[1] For a critical discussion of the distinction
diachrony vs synchrony see Labov 1972 and Milroy 1992.

I tried to show that users of a language (interactants, or participants to a linguistic interaction) not only possess a background
knowledge of grammatical structures (what Chomsky terms competence), but also the ability to use this knowledge in specific
situations. This ability is not a simply a context-independent set of rules (what Hymes termed communicative competence),
but highly elusive and shifting from situation to situation. I used the term ideology to describe this ability because it is based on
beliefs or sets of beliefs.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

Schlagwörter

Sprachsituation, Sprachstruktur, Kulturelle Ideologie, Speech codes, Standard language, language structure, cultural ideology

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BENASSI, Giuliano, 1997. Political Correctness and ideology: a cross-cultural linguistic study [Master thesis]

BibTex

@mastersthesis{Benassi1997Polit-3833,
  year={1997},
  title={Political Correctness and ideology: a cross-cultural linguistic study},
  author={Benassi, Giuliano}
}

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