Publication details

Chained or Free Words and Thoughts (Linguistic expressions of political correctness)

Authors

KREJČOVÁ Elena STALJANOVA Nadežda

Year of publication 2018
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Balkanistic Forum
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Web http://www.bf.swu.bg/BF-eng.html
Keywords political correctness; freedom of speech; discrimination; hate speech
Description The paper deals with the linguistic representation of the idea of political correctness. Political correctness has two dimensions that are interrelated and indivisible – the former relates to the social public relations and treatment of people without prejudice and without discrimination, while the latter refers to linguistic expression of this attitude, with lexical stock and scope of the vocabulary, which is also called politically correct language.We study the history of the idea of political correctness as a social movement and as language restrictions. Various views are presented - from insincerity, hypocrisy to restriction of hate speech.

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