Date: 26 September 2018
Time: 15:00
Place: Seminari de Filosofia (UB, Barcelona)
Language policing raises important legal, socio-political, psychological and linguistic considerations. This talk will focus on two recent events in Canadian language policing, one, a defamation court case in which I acted as expert witness, the other, a notorious public debacle around a piece of human rights legislation confronting freedom of speech.