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The Murky Linguistics of Consent
14 mins | Mar 26, 2018
In many #MeToo stories, crucial signals, verbal and non-verbal cues, are sent but not received. Is it due to willful passivity, willful ignorance… or something else altogether? Linguist Chi Luu, writing in JSTOR Daily, provides a guide to navigating the indirect language and cues of consent.
