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  • 1
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    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520928077 , 0520928075 , 0585389888 , 9780585389882 , 0520232070 , 9780520232075
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (x, 322 pages)
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
    DDC: 306.440973
    Keywords: Sociolinguistics United States ; Mass media and language United States ; Power (Social sciences) United States ; Mass media and language United States ; Power (Social sciences) United States ; Sociolinguistics United States ; United States Languages ; Political aspects ; United States ; United States Languages ; Political aspects ; United States ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "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
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-312) and index. - Description based on print version record , Description based on print version record , 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 , Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library , 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.
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  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Berkeley : University of California Press
    ISBN: 9780520928077
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (333 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.4/4/0973
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Robin Lakoff gets to the heart of one of the most fascinating and pressing issues in American society today: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a brilliant and vastly entertaining discussion of news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space--political correctness, the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady, O. J. Simpson's murder trial, the Ebonics controversy, and the Clinton sex scandal--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 is 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 languagein short, to possess power. Because language tells us how we are connected to one another, who has power and who does not, the stories reflect the language war. We use language to analyze what we call "reality," the author argues, but we mistrust how language is used today--witness the "politics of personal destruction" following the Clinton impeachment. Yet Lakoff sees in the struggle over language a positive goal: equality in the creation of our national discourse. Her writing is accessible and witty,
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. What I Am Doing Here, and How I Am Doing It -- 1 Language: The Power We Love to Hate -- 2 The Neutrality of the Status Quo -- 3 "Political Correctness" and Hate Speech: The Word as Sword -- 4 Mad, Bad, and Had: The Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas Narrative(s) -- 5 Hillary Rodham Clinton: What the Sphinx Thinks -- 6 Who Framed "O.J."? -- 7 Ebonics-It's Chronic -- 8 The Story of Ugh -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 0195119886 , 9780195119886 , 0195119894 , 9780195119893
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 408 Seiten
    DDC: 306.44
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    Keywords: Soziolinguistik ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Literaturangaben , Includes bibliographical references and index.
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