Lexical Silencing: How to Suppress Speech with Negative Words.

This paper will introduce "lexical silencing" as a new linguistic phenomenon, i.e., positive statements about something are made more difficult to express when the only (or the predominant) word for it in a language is a negative word. A good example is the term "political correctness," which carrie...

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Publicado en:	Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 1; pp. 5 - 16
Autor principal:	Liu, Chang
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Springer Nature Mar2026
Materias:	Political correctness Constraints (Linguistics) Discriminatory language Censorship Public communication Functional linguistics Persuasion (Rhetoric)
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