The language war /
"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 c...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
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.