Ian Robinson (2) (1944–)
Autor de The New Grammarians' Funeral: A Critique of Noam Chomsky's Linguistics
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Robinson's thesis is - sharply paraphrased - 'we are what we say, what we hear, what we read and what we write' and that as our language itself deteriorates so does our ability to understand ourselves and the world about us. There's a good deal of truth in this, witness the disaster of the twittersphere and the general trend against any attempts to argue a case, substituted - in Parliament as in much of the media - by bland, simplistic and repetitive statements and slogans.
Worst of all - and only glimpsed at a distance by Robinson - is the sad lapse of our universities into the environment of 'trigger warnings' ,, unsayable opinions and anything that might upset either the student or the professor.… (más)