The End of Linguistics

[Celso Álvarez Cáccamo]

John McCreery asks, about that article:

"How would you answer these charges?" [about the status of linguistics as a
science]

They are not charges,  but a particular view of linguistics. Pretty poorly
written, by the way.

I think this view is in tune with an increasingly aggressive attempt to
discredit any field of knowledge which does not produce immediate profit
through applied research. Only some zones of linguistics lend themselves to
technologization. The rest is gangue for this type of discourse. And, of
course, you need a Real Unified Object for a real science. Pretty shallow,
but it seems to work for some.

My reply to the author would be: Try not to mistake "dialectical" for
"dialectal".

Celso Álvarez Cáccamo
lxalvarz at udc.es
http://www.udc.es/dep/lx/cac
Celso Alvarez Cáccamo              Tel. +34 981 167000 ext. 1888
Linguística Geral, Faculdade de Filologia     FAX +34 981 167151
Universidade da Corunha                          lxalvarz at udc.es
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