Abstract
Abstract
This article offers my personal assessment of the recent efforts to censor certain metaphors in higher education
within the United States. Many universities have created extensive speech codes that censor various metaphorical words and phrases
for their potential harm, especially for possibly being offensive to different individuals and marginalized communities. I discuss
some of the problems with these efforts and offer a brief defense of the importance of metaphors, good or bad, in our public
conversations.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics