SOCIOLINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IN ENGLISH
Journal: Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Year: 2021

The paper examines the issue of political correct (PC) language as deeply rooted in a set of values and beliefs of the Anglo-American democratic ideology. The review of foreign and Russian-language literature enables to specify key cultural prerequisites of the PC phenomenon and shed light on the current state of the problem. We aimed to use a number of examples from academic literature to describe the factors contributing to the popularity of politically correct vocabulary in all spheres of pub