David Crystal
*political correctness is 'hardline linguistic orthodoxy'
*In the 1990s, anyone who used politically incorrect language 'risked severe condemnation by PC activists.
*'the word black...was felt to be so sensitive that some banned its use in all possible contexts.'
*'Critics of PC believe that a search for a 'caring' lexicon is pointless, as long as inequalities do not change'
*those who aim to establish PC 'argue that the use of language itself helps to perpetuate these inequalities.
*'Political correctness has become one of the most contentious issues in the US socio-political scne in recent years. '
*People often approach PC with 'aggressiveness which creates antagonism'.
Laurie Penny - Writing for the News Statesman
*“what has come to be called ‘political correctness’ used to be known as good manners and was considered part of being a decent human being. The term now is employed to write of any speech that is uncomfortably socially conscious, culturally sensitive or just plain ‘left wing’”
A new guide given to midwives in the NHS
Recently, Donnelly (2018) in The Telegraph newspaper reported that midwives should “avoid the use of the phrase ‘big baby’ in case it makes women anxious, and not to talk about ‘foetal distress’. Instead, larger infants should be described as “healthy” while foetal distress should be described as “changes in the baby’s heart rate pattern,”
Deborah Cameron
*“[PC] pushes to the limit established belief about what a language is, or ideally should be and therefore it causes considerable anxiety.”
*"Getting rid of this mystification does not magically produce consensus, but it clears the ground for more focused arguments about what (and whose) restrictions on our linguistic practice were are or are not willing to accept."
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