Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • Chad Nilep: On Bullshitology-The History of Women's Language

    Uploaded by

    IGALA
    60 views18 pages
    This presentation considers recent scholarship on “pseudo-profound bullshit” (Pennycook et al. 2015) and suggests that comparison with discourses of “women’s language” (Lako 1973) may help illuminate how the category is constructed ideologically. Psychologists seek to identify traits that make people receptive to impressive yet vague speech. But instead of identifying bullshit through truth value and speaker intent (contra Frankfurt 2005), they implicitly identify topics – New Age discourse, Twitter – and speakers with pseudo-profound bullshit. I suggest that critiques of socially constructed language ideologies from gender and language scholarship may provide a model and corrective for such studies of discourse reception. Keywords: bullshit, discourse reception, ideology, philosophy of language, psychology

    Original Title

    Chad Nilep: on Bullshitology-The History of Women's Language

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Report this Document
    This presentation considers recent scholarship on “pseudo-profound bullshit” (Pennycook et al. 2015) and suggests that comparison with discourses of “women’s language” (Lako 1973) may help illuminate how the category is constructed ideologically. Psychologists seek to identify traits that make people receptive to impressive yet vague speech. But instead of identifying bullshit through truth value and speaker intent (contra Frankfurt 2005), they implicitly identify topics – New Age discourse, Twitter – and speakers with pseudo-profound bullshit. I suggest that critiques of socially constructed language ideologies from gender and language scholarship may provide a model and corrective for such studies of discourse reception. Keywords: bullshit, discourse reception, ideology, philosophy of language, psychology

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Flag for inappropriate content
    60 views18 pages

    Chad Nilep: On Bullshitology-The History of Women's Language

    Uploaded by

    IGALA
    This presentation considers recent scholarship on “pseudo-profound bullshit” (Pennycook et al. 2015) and suggests that comparison with discourses of “women’s language” (Lako 1973) may help illuminate how the category is constructed ideologically. Psychologists seek to identify traits that make people receptive to impressive yet vague speech. But instead of identifying bullshit through truth value and speaker intent (contra Frankfurt 2005), they implicitly identify topics – New Age discourse, Twitter – and speakers with pseudo-profound bullshit. I suggest that critiques of socially constructed language ideologies from gender and language scholarship may provide a model and corrective for such studies of discourse reception. Keywords: bullshit, discourse reception, ideology, philosophy of language, psychology

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Flag for inappropriate content
    of 18

    On bullshitology: The history

    of womens language
    and the future of
    pseudo-profound bullshit
    Chad Nilep
    Nagoya University
    nilep@ilas.nagoya-u.ac.jp

    Pseudo-profound bullshit
    1. Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract
    beauty.
    2. Unparalleled transforms meaning beauty hidden abstract
    (Pennycook et al. 2015)

    @DeepakChopra

    wisdomofchopra.com

    Senegalese states c. 1785

    (Irvine & Gal


    2000)

    On bullshitology: The history


    of womens language
    and the future of
    pseudo-profound bullshit
    Chad Nilep
    Nagoya University
    nilep@ilas.nagoya-u.ac.jp

    You might also like