ISBN:
9780203948682
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 196 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Butler, Judith, 1956 - Excitable speech
DDC:
302.2242
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Diskriminierung
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Sprechakt
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Performanz
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Verbalaggression
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Politische Rede
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Streitgespräch
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Beleidigung
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Beschimpfung
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Sprechakt
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Politische Kommunikation
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Verbalaggression
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Politische Sprache
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Sprachverhalten
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Englisch
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Gefühlsausdruck
Abstract:
With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate speech regulations, anti-pornography arguments, and recent controversies about gay self-declaration in the military, Judith Butler asks whether and how language acts in each of these cultural sites
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction On Linguistic Vulnerability; 1/ Burning Acts, Injurious Speech; 2/ Sovereign Performatives; 3/ Contagious Word: Paranoia and "Homosexuality" in the Military; 4/ Implicit Censorship and Discursive Agency; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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