The ancient but persistent recognition of the power of language is apparent in the respect for correctness in the use of language in any sphere of life having supernatural connections.
Nor was the word limited to economics: in the earliest entry in the O.E.D., from a 1951 Archivum Linguisticum, a roundheeled lexicographer sneered at "Linguistic dirigisme, standards of correctness in a constantly evolving language".
Linguistic theorists who define the terminology of political correctness suggest that grammatical choices made in language influence both the speaker's and the listener's ideas and actions.
"More than mere political correctness," the NSWP proudly states, "this shift in language had the important effect of moving global understandings of sex work toward a labour framework".
Despite the infinitely greater number of women in the workplace now, despite all the investment in gender-awareness, despite the obeisance to political correctness, men and women continue to communicate in language that the other sex sometimes fails to understand.
Political correctness, driven by the abhorrence of sexism in language, has banished such phrases as the forgotten man, man on horseback, century of the common man, even man in the arena.
The signs in language can only function when there is a possibility of judging the correctness of their use, "so the use of [a] word stands in need of a justification which everybody understands" (PI 261).
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Sign language has adapted to political correctness in recent years.
