Linguistics Professors - Winners or Losers?
Patrik Austin
February 2024 

This chapter of The Tyranny of Delusion has the length of two because it includes material that validates the suggestions made in the First Chapter: that linguistics as we have learned to know it is a fake science and a kind of flat-earth society, that the participants’ actions are motivated by funding politics, on the one hand, and upholding the tyranny of self-perception on the other, which call for the rejection of objective standards; and why such realizations are perceived irrelevant.

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keywords:	sociolinguistics, funding, language policy, linguistic theories, language debates, syntax, phonology, semantics, morphology
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