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Publication details [#65952]

Granath, Solveig and Magnus Ullén. 2019. ‘The Elevation of Sensitivity over Truth’: Political Correctness and Related Phrases in the Time Magazine Corpus. Applied Linguistics 40 (2) : 265–287.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
corpus analysis | culture | evaluation | expression1 | irony | opinion | political slogan
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press
Journal WWW
http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This quantitative and qualitative diachronic inquiry of the use of the expression politically correct (PC) and linked phrases in the American magazine Time from 1923 through 2006, shows a frequency increase in the early 1990s and that negative or ironic uses of the terms prevail.