From: tgpedersen
Message: 47953
Date: 2007-03-18
> http://www.tulane.edu/~howard/LangIdeo/Koerner/Koerner.htmlWhy do you say that? I don't think anyone on Cybalist doesn't
>
> This general non-recognition of ideological consideratins playing a
> role in linguistics and its methodology is deplorable not simply
> because of the lack of social consciousness and sense of
> intellectual responsibility which this attitude among scholars
> reveals, but also because linguists can be shown to have been
> particularly prone to cater, consciously or not, to ideas and
> interests outside their discipline and, as history shows, allowed at
> times their findings to be used for purposes they were not
> originally intended or simply joined up with certain trends."
>
>
> "Although it is obvious from his own account that a considerable
> number of authors had ideological, including at times religious and
> maybe even political, agenda, Mallory does not raise the issue of
> ideology, quite in line with traditional scholarly discourse in
> which this aspect of scientific endeavour has been regularly
> ignored."