Monday 9 November 2015

humanities are everywhere except in politicians' priorities

Some years ago, a Trade Union leader, Thomas Nielsen, jubilated that the Trade Union movement was 'victorious like Hell.'
We might say the same about the humanities: the field has invaded and dominates linguistic phenomena like sociolinguistics and pragmatic linguistics. And as for studies in social and political areas, everything is understood and studied as a text.

However, the Victory seems unheeded by those who fund and decide over the humanities ...