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Taken for granted : the remarkable power of the unremarkable /
Why is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Offering a revealing and provocative look at the word choices we make every...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Marked and the Unmarked; 2 Semiotic Asymmetry; Semiotic Weight; Tacit Assumptions and Cognitive Defaults; The Common and the Exceptional; 3 Social Variations on a Theme; Marking Traditions; Marking Conventions; Situational Variability; Marking Battles; 4 The Politics of Normality; Normality and Deviance; The Shape of Normality; Normalizing and Othering; Representativeness; Neutrality and Invisibility; Self-Evidence and Cognitive Hegemony; 5 Semiotic Subversion; Marking the Unmarked; The Politics of Foregrounding; Academic Foregrounding.
- Artistic ForegroundingComic Foregrounding; Backgrounding; 6 Language and Cultural Change; Notes; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index.