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Living speech : resisting the empire of force /
Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Adve...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination. How are we to assert our humanity and that of others against the forces in the culture and in our own minds that would deny it? What kind of speech should the First Amendment protect? How should judges and justices t. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400827534 1400827531 0691138370 9780691138374 1282086863 9781282086869 9786612086861 6612086866 |