Gender Pronouns — Steven Pinker on Politically Motivated Campaigns to Change and Abandon Language

Gender Pronouns: Steven Pinker on Politically Motivated Campaigns to Change and Abandon Language

This is an excerpt from episode 14 of Tyler Cowen's podcast Conversations with Tyler, published on the 2nd of November 2016, in which Steven Pinker takes a question from an audience member regarding the way language can be used politically, politically motivated campaigns to change language, specifically touching on the bubbling fervour over gender pronouns.

You can listen to the entire episode on the Conversations with Tyler site: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler/steven-pinker-language-instinct-evolutionary-psychology-darwin-chomsky-linguistics-b792d7cd2a05#.yzpr0n3hl

You can also listen to this episode of the podcast on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/conversationswithtyler/steven-pinker-language-blank-slate-chomsky-linguistics

You can find more episodes of the podcast here: https://medium.com/conversations-with-tyler

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