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The language war /

"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 c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lakoff, Robin Tolmach
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.