why journalists need to understand grammar to write accurately about violence
- Written by Annabelle Lukin, Associate Professor in Linguistics, Macquarie University
The recent killing of unarmed Palestinians by Israeli forces has sparked not only a reasonable outcry, but commentary on the language journalists use to report these events.
For instance, writer and English professor Moustafa Bayoumi, of City University of New York, wrote:
It is the peculiar fate of oppressed people everywhere that when they are...