On the other hand there is an opposite tendancy for experts to talk to
each other using terminiology and in-group communication that excludes
those who need knowledge from access to it. There is also a tendancy to
use exclusive proprietary expertise as a way of putting down alternate views4
of dispoosing of them on authority rather than scientific argument. An
example is the letter of 40 linguists and psychologists on reading.
Language is too important to be the exclusive domain of linguists- or any
single linguistic paradigm. On the other hand, we can not dismiss any
scientific explanation of language because it is too complex.
AAll this is one of the reasons I have argued for many yearz of
interdisciplinary (not multi-disciplinary) theory and research.
Ken Goodman