more on "linguistic profiling" as WOTY candidate

[Sonja L. Lanehart]

I don't think it can be nominated for brand-spanking new since I
nominated it last year during the meeting. I was told to wait till
the 2002 meeting to nominate it for a more appropriate category than
the one I was nominating it for by the time I remembered to nominate
it. I guess I was ahead of my time.  --Sonja

>If anyone wants to take the "test" at the abcnews.com web site I
>mentioned (during the Thursday broadcast), it's at this URL:
>
>When Voice Recognition Leads to Bias
>http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/WorldNewsTonight/linguistic_p
>rofiling011206.html
>
>A little additional investigation indicates that this might indeed be
>a candidate for the brand-spanking new category.  No hits at all on
>"linguistic profiling" on Nexis, and most of the google ones point
>directly back to the ABC story or to other, irrelevant uses of the
>expression (rather than the one spun off from "racial profiling" at
>issue here).  Linguist List had a brief discussion of the expression
>last September, which was inspired by a mention on NPR in either late
>August or early September (2001), so unless there's an earlier use
>around somewhere, it looks like a good candidate, and with the
>possibility of extension to contexts of "profiling" native Arabic
>speakers of English rather than for purposes of "traditional" racial
>discrimination, it may have a future.
>
>larry


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