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The language war /

Main Author: Lakoff, Robin Tolmach.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Sociolinguistics > United States.
Mass media and language > Political aspects. > United States.
Power (Social sciences) > United States.
Mass media and language.
Power (Social sciences)
Sociolinguistics.
English language.
United States.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Language and languages > Political aspects.
Taal.
Macht.
United States > Languages
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=66025
Table of 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.

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