Abstract:Living dangerously (Q1) represents the kind of question that should be addressed in the opening paper of a conference with the theme 'Linguistics for the language professions'. (Q1) Has linguistics got ~nything to offer that can be of value to all language professions? But (Q1 ~ is a question that invites responses with potentially disastrous consequences. Obviously~ nothing would be gained by saying in response to (Q1) things that were at once trivially and boringly true. Equally obviously, it would be counte… Show more
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