Crisis in the Linguistic Society of America
Affiliation:
1. University of Washington
2. University of British Columbia
3. Simon Fraser University
Abstract
Summary
This article discusses and analyses the 1970 election for President of
the Linguistic Society of America. In that year, Dwight Bolinger
challenged the official candidate Martin Joos and defeated him easily. We see that it was
mainly personal and generational factors, rather than intellectual ones, that led to
Bolinger’s victory.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,History,Language and Linguistics