The language war / Robin Tolmach Lakoff.

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Lakoff, Robin Tolmach

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TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (x, 322 p.)Content type:

text

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9780520928077
0520928075
0585389888
9780585389882
0520232070
9780520232075
1597347019
9781597347013
9786612355905
6612355905
1282355902
9781282355903

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: The language warDDC classification:

306.44/0973 21

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P40.45.U5

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17.24

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Contents:

Language: the power we love to hate -- The neutrality of the status quo -- "Political correctness" and hate speech: the word as sword -- Mad, bad, and had: the Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas narrative(s) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton: what the Sphinx thinks -- Who framed "O.J."? -- Ebonics: it's chronic -- The story of ugh.

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Review: "Lakoff shows that the struggle for power and status at the end of the century is being played out as a war over language. Controlling language is a basis for all power, she says, and therefore, it's worth fighting for. As a result, newly emergent groups, especially blacks and women, are contending with middle-to-upper-class white men for a share in "language rights." Lakoff's introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet what she calls the UAT (Undue Attention Test). As the stories became the subject of talk-show debates, late-night comedy routines, Web sites, and magazine articles, they were embroidered with additional meanings, depending on who was telling the story. Race, gender, or both are at the heart of these stories, and each one is about the right to construct meanings from language - in short, to possess power. Because language tells us how we're connected to one another, who has power and who doesn't, the stories reflect the language war."--Jacket

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"Lakoff shows that the struggle for power and status at the end of the century is being played out as a war over language. Controlling language is a basis for all power, she says, and therefore, it's worth fighting for. As a result, newly emergent groups, especially blacks and women, are contending with middle-to-upper-class white men for a share in "language rights." Lakoff's introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet what she calls the UAT (Undue Attention Test). As the stories became the subject of talk-show debates, late-night comedy routines, Web sites, and magazine articles, they were embroidered with additional meanings, depending on who was telling the story. Race, gender, or both are at the heart of these stories, and each one is about the right to construct meanings from language - in short, to possess power. Because language tells us how we're connected to one another, who has power and who doesn't, the stories reflect the language war."--Jacket

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