38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)
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The Epistemic Trespasser Is the Gatekeeper
Non-linguists often try to use language data to prove an idea that they have. And when linguists correct them, they double down on their ideas and cry that they're being bullied. So the term that I learned for this tendency from a tweet from Joshua Reich Law is epistemic trespassing. The idea that you're working outside of your area but also dismissing experts in the area coming up with your own views and doing it badly. That's a real thing.
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