I could whinge for hours & hours & hours about the time&labour-wasting process of getting ethics clearance for – wait for it – the dangerous act of giving students questionnaires about everyday language use on everyday subjects. You have better things to read.
Among which could be the Linguistics Society of America’s draft statement on ethics. It contains some interesting ideas, links to codes of ethics in related disciplines, and, most helpfully, it’s in a blog format, so people are commenting on pieces of the proposal. The comments are fascinating.
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