Sascha WolferInterviews for mass #media are a bit tricky. On the one hand, it‘s good to be be asked about your expertise (here: comprehensible legal #language) and promoting #linguistics to a large audience. On the other hand, you have to be able to bear funny stuff like wishing a good a morning in (especially incomprehensible) #legalese. I‘d say the positives outweigh the negatives. In the end, it‘s also a good thing to take your work not TOO seriously, right?
Joachim Scharloth@sascha_wolfer The downside, of course, is that the content is transformed by the logic of the media and assumptions about the audience in such a way that sometimes you don't recognize your own research.
But one can also learn something from this, e.g. how others see the subject and our discipline.