The Resource The language war, Robin Tolmach Lakoff
The language war, Robin Tolmach Lakoff
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The item The language war, Robin Tolmach Lakoff represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- "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 contending with middle-to-upper-class white men for a share in "language rights." Lakoff's introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet what she calls the UAT (Undue Attention Test). As the stories became the subject of talk-show debates, late-night comedy routines, Web sites, and magazine articles, they were embroidered with additional meanings, depending on who was telling the story. Race, gender, or both are at the heart of these stories, and each one is about the right to construct meanings from language - in short, to possess power. Because language tells us how we're connected to one another, who has power and who doesn't, the stories reflect the language war."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 322 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780520232075
- Label
- The language war
- Title
- The language war
- Statement of responsibility
- Robin Tolmach Lakoff
- Subject
-
- Electronic books
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics | Sociolinguistics
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- Language and languages -- Political aspects
- Macht
- Mass media and language
- Mass media and language -- United States
- Massenmedien
- Political Correctness
- Politieke aspecten
- Power (Social sciences)
- Electronic book
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics -- United States
- Soziolinguistik
- Sprache
- Taal
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Languages | Political aspects
- Power (Social sciences) -- United States
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 contending with middle-to-upper-class white men for a share in "language rights." Lakoff's introduction to linguistic theories and the philosophy of language lays the groundwork for an exploration of news stories that meet what she calls the UAT (Undue Attention Test). As the stories became the subject of talk-show debates, late-night comedy routines, Web sites, and magazine articles, they were embroidered with additional meanings, depending on who was telling the story. Race, gender, or both are at the heart of these stories, and each one is about the right to construct meanings from language - in short, to possess power. Because language tells us how we're connected to one another, who has power and who doesn't, the stories reflect the language war."--Jacket
- Action
- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lakoff, Robin Tolmach
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Sociolinguistics
- United States
- Mass media and language
- Power (Social sciences)
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Language and languages
- Mass media and language
- Power (Social sciences)
- Sociolinguistics
- United States
- Sprache
- Soziolinguistik
- Political Correctness
- Massenmedien
- Taal
- Macht
- Politieke aspecten
- USA
- Label
- The language war, Robin Tolmach Lakoff
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-312) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocm49570130
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 322 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520232075
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9780520928077
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttt53gm
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)49570130
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
- Label
- The language war, Robin Tolmach Lakoff
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-312) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocm49570130
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 322 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780520232075
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 9780520928077
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttt53gm
- Reproduction note
- Electronic reproduction.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)49570130
- System details
- Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Subject
- Electronic books
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics | Sociolinguistics
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- Language and languages -- Political aspects
- Macht
- Mass media and language
- Mass media and language -- United States
- Massenmedien
- Political Correctness
- Politieke aspecten
- Power (Social sciences)
- Electronic book
- Sociolinguistics
- Sociolinguistics -- United States
- Soziolinguistik
- Sprache
- Taal
- USA
- United States
- United States -- Languages | Political aspects
- Power (Social sciences) -- United States
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