Some Thoughts on the Societal Impact of Linguistics

Authors

Arto Mustajoki

Keywords

research, linguistic research, scholars, language

Abstract

Today, scholars are obliged to justify the necessity of research in their own fields. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the channels of societal impact of linguistic research. In other words, I will try to answer the following question: in what ways is the work of scholars dealing with language(s) useful for society? The paper is based on my articles published in Finnish (Mustajoki 2005, 2011) and on oral presentations in various academic circles. I will first discuss some general ideas concerning the societal impact of research and researchers. I will then try to apply these ideas to linguistics.

Recommended Citation

Mustajoki, Arto (2010) "Some Thoughts on the Societal Impact of Linguistics," Russian Language Journal: Vol. 60: Iss. 1.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.70163/0036-0252.1185
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rlj/vol60/iss1/16