title: Social meaning in the mirror of political correctness
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metadata.value: Chernyavskaya, Valeria E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-08-24T22:10:08Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-08-24T22:10:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Chernyavskaya V. E. Social meaning in the mirror of political correctness. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2021, 18 (2): 383–399.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2021.208
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/32926
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article addresses two central notions, namely social meaning and political correctness.
  The concept of social meaning is well known in “third wave” sociolinguistics, which connects
  patterns of language variation with the wider social world, in metapragmatics after Michael
  Silverstein, language ideology research and discourse analysis. The analysis is in line with these
  research approaches and also reflects back the pragmatic interpretation of social meanings. It
  is presumed that the social meaning of a word or an utterance is indexical in its nature and
  conveys information about the social context of language use. Social meaning of an utterance
  reflects its social embeddedness. In this respect, the perspective of political correctness reflects
  the discursive process of social indexicality and social meaning making. The article examines
  modern cases of political correctness (PC) in the USA (2017–2020) to show the effects of discursive
  pressure on interpretation frames. PC is discussed as a controversial practice and it is
  aimed at avoiding expressions or actions that can be perceived to marginalize or insult socially
  disadvantaged and discriminated people. At the same time, it can overpoliticize issues and act
  as a struggle against implicit meanings and implicatures.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was supported by Russian Science Foundation (grant no. 18-18-00442) “Mechanisms of
  Meaning and Textualization in Social Narrative and Performative Discourses and Practices”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 18; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social meaning
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contextualization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language ideology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political correctness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: overpoliticization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Social meaning in the mirror of political correctness
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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