How Linguistics Got Her Groove Back

Published: Nov. 14, 2015, 8:37 p.m.

b'How Linguistics Got Her Groove Back; by Gunnr Gu\\xf0r Entgegenl\\xe4cheln; From Volume CLXIII, Number 4, of Speculative Grammarian, January 2012 \\u2014 Common wisdom\\u2014an oxymoron if ever there was one\\u2014has it that linguistics and linguists themselves have a bit of a reputation problem. Are linguists boring? Incomprehensible? Pointless? Evil? The contention of this paper is\\u2014given that perception is nine-tenths of reality\\u2014unless we ask, we\\u2019ll never know. (Read by Trey Jones, Joey Whitford, and Jonathan van der Meer.)'