Jan Blommaert obituary
Jan Blommaert’s work was marked by a close focus on how people actually use language. Photograph: Diggit
Jan Blommaert’s work was marked by a close focus on how people actually use language. Photograph: Diggit
PhilipSeargeant
Mon 8 Feb 2021 14.31 EST
Last modified on Mon 8 Feb 2021 14.33 EST
My former supervisor and colleague, Professor Jan Blommaert, who has died aged 59 of cancer, was one of the leading scholars in contemporary sociolinguistics. His work illuminated the vitally important relationship that language plays in all aspects of politics and culture. He combined an influential academic career with a role as public intellectual and was committed throughout his life to ideals of justice, equality and universal human rights.
Arm yourself against conspiracy theories
There are basic ways to distinguish the plausible from the far-fetched.
By Scot Lehigh Globe Columnist,Updated January 28, 2021, 4:21 p.m.
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A protester touting conspiracy theories yells over a bullhorn in front of the Ohio State House in Columbus, Jan. 17, during a nationwide protest called by antigovernment and far-right groups supporting Donald Trump and his false claim of electoral fraud in the Nov. 3 presidential election.STEPHEN ZENNER/AFP via Getty Images
Conspiracy theories might once have seemed like odd but innocuous beliefs entertained by harmless eccentrics. No longer. We have now seen how they can spark deadly violence. The Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol came because a mob of angry Trump supporters labored under the groundless conspiratorialist delusion that the presidential election had been stolen from their favored candidate.
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