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Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political corr...

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Autor principal: Lakoff, Robin Tolmach (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2000]
Temas:
Mass media and language > United States.
Power (Social sciences) > United States.
Sociolinguistics > United States.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
african american.
american history.
american society.
anita hill.
clarence thomas.
contemporary america.
discourse.
ebonics.
gender.
government.
language.
law and order.
legal issues.
media.
modern america.
modern american.
modern society.
modern world.
murder trial.
news.
oj simpson.
political correctness.
politics.
pop culture.
power.
race.
racism.
reality.
sex scandal.
trials.
united states history.
us history.
womens issues.
womens studies.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. What I Am Doing Here, and How I Am Doing It
  • 1. Language: The Power We Love to Hate
  • 2. The Neutrality of the Status Quo
  • 3. "Political Correctness" and Hate Speech: The Word as Sword
  • 4. Mad, Bad, and Had: The Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas Narrative(s)
  • 5. Hillary Rodham Clinton: What the Sphinx Thinks
  • 6. Who Framed "O.J."?
  • 7. Ebonics-It's Chronic
  • 8. The Story of Ugh
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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