Living Speech : Resisting the Empire of Force /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: White, James Boyd, 1938-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Violence.
Violence in literature.
Law > Language.
Judgments > Language.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
violence.
Violence dans la litterature.
Violence
Judgments > United States > Language.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Speech in the empire
  • Living speech and the mind behind it
  • The desire for meaning
  • Writing that calls the reader into life
  • or death
  • Human dignity and the claim of meaning
  • Silence, belief, and the right to speak.

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