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Kate Burridge
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Linguistics Professor, Monash University
Melbourne
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By Kate Burridge| Crikey Verified A “healthy expansion of moral concern”? A “new strain of ideological virus”? A “dictatorship of the well-meaning and pure of heart”? A “doctrine of opportunism”? These are the wildly different ways people in the 1990s described that linguistic hot potato called political correctness. The descriptions could well be among the jungle of clashing accounts we find today — but for wokeness.
By Howard Manns, Simon Musgrave, Kate Burridge, Isabelle M. Burke| Taylor & Francis@ ABSTRACTThis study investigates “Australian slang” with a focus on how useful or apt the term “slang” is for the lexical and social processes that attract this label in Australia. Australian slang is a common topic in popular discourse, but it has received little critical attention from linguists. In the current paper, we first examine whether Australian slang meets the theoretical parameters of slang set out by earlier slang researchers.
By Kate Burridge| Crikey Verified A “healthy expansion of moral concern”? A “new strain of ideological virus”? A “dictatorship of the well-meaning and pure of heart”? A “doctrine of opportunism”? These are the wildly different ways people in the 1990s described that linguistic hot potato called political correctness. The descriptions could well be among the jungle of clashing accounts we find today — but for wokeness.
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Monash University
Moe, Victoria, Australia
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