tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508618900717274691.post4329350031281330728..comments2024-02-23T13:20:10.575-05:00Comments on The Savory Tort: Linguists' famous feud evidences defamatory power of 'racist' chargeRichard Peltz-Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11983911257598862193noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508618900717274691.post-87928022900371280902021-03-22T11:50:39.900-04:002021-03-22T11:50:39.900-04:00I was pleased to see this posting from professor P...I was pleased to see this posting from professor Peltz-Steele on the topic of defamation by use of the accusation of racism. The problem is more timely than ever before. It is true, as the post suggests, that the defaming of Daniel Everett and the apparent consequences to his ability to conduct fieldwork have been largely forgotten. But no part of any of this has been resolved satisfactorily. There was attempt to raise the issue within the linguistics field in 2017 in a review of a recent book of Everett in Journal of Linguistics: https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/nf4/ReviewEverett.pdf. The review references two postings from a linguistics blog in 2014: https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/nf4/EverettChomskyPosting.pdf<br />And a blog of Chronicle of Higher Education in 2012: https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/nf4/CHE(2012)post.pdf. No evidence of the charge levelled against Everett has ever been brought forward. I asked for this evidence on these three occasions, and no one has replied. <br />The topic of Universal Grammar and Everett’s research calling UG into question is interesting. Maybe some time we can have this discussion too. My book review was a proposal for having it. But for now this is a different matter. <br />norberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05912802625767176117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508618900717274691.post-69161075920678036552021-03-19T18:48:39.660-04:002021-03-19T18:48:39.660-04:00I was pleased to see this posting from professor P...I was pleased to see this posting from professor Peltz-Steele on the topic of defamation by use of the accusation of racism. The problem is more timely than ever before. It is true, as the post suggests, that the defaming of Daniel Everett and the apparent consequences to his ability to conduct fieldwork have been largely forgotten. But no part of any of this has been resolved satisfactorily. There was attempt to raise the issue within the linguistics field in 2017 in a review of a recent book of Everett in Journal of Linguistics: https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/nf4/ReviewEverett.pdf. The review references two postings from a linguistics blog in 2014: https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/nf4/EverettChomskyPosting.pdf<br />And a blog of Chronicle of Higher Education in 2012: https://jan.ucc.nau.edu/nf4/CHE(2012)post.pdf. No evidence of the charge levelled against Everett has ever been brought forward. I asked for this evidence on these three occasions, and no one has replied. <br />The topic of Universal Grammar and Everett’s research calling UG into question is interesting. Maybe some time we can have this discussion too. My book review was a proposal for having it. But for now this is a different matter. <br /><br />Norbert Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01646110190573515841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508618900717274691.post-8069941357894082532020-08-13T15:25:17.621-04:002020-08-13T15:25:17.621-04:00Where has wisdom, logic and tolerance gone? An ope...Where has wisdom, logic and tolerance gone? An open mind always seeks after truth. Today there are few open minds in the academic world. Dagny Bertolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10063412481346981692noreply@blogger.com