#linguistic ethics

[linguisticalities]

Lakota elders helped a white man preserve their language. Then he tried to sell it back to them.

“No matter how it was collected, where it was collected, when it was collected, our language belongs to us," said Ray Taken Alive, a Lakota teacher.

This is shameful. Lakota Language Consortium should be condemned by all language documentation professionals.

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Are We Being Framed? | JSTOR Daily

How the linguistic trick of framing shapes meaning--and can lead to deception.

“Perhaps fewer people really understand that when it comes to language itself, just the act of speaking is not “transparent and innocent” as many people believe. We don’t say exactly what we mean, we naturally frame our language and make linguistic choices, even unknowingly, that reflect how we see the world. Using language is rarely just neutral.”