Resumen de Desires for “committed” research

Sandra Nossik

• This article proposes to question two aspects that may be faced by research in the social sciences of language that wants to be politically engaged. The first concerns the choice of “sensitive” corpora, which can be ethically problematic when research draws only disciplinary conclusions, despite their socially important nature. The second question is that of the dissemination of research outside the academic sphere: in sometimes innovative forms that can themselves be reclaimed and supervised by the university institution, they lose their primary emancipatory ambitions. To conclude, this article proposes to materialize our political commitments through a reinvestment in teaching and a possible renunciation of academically valorized research products.