The Language War
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The Language War
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Author : Robin Tolmach Lakoff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-05-22
The Language War written by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
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, and her excerpts from the media are used to great effect.
The Language Of War
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Author : James Dawes
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07
The Language Of War written by James Dawes and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Focusing on American literature from the Civil War, World War I, and World War II, Dawes develops two primary questions: How does the strategic violence of war affect literary, legal, and philosophical representations? And, in turn, how do such representations affect the reception and initiation of violence itself?
The Language War
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Author : Robin Tolmach Lakoff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000
The Language War written by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
An exploration of who holds power in America today, and how they use it, keep it or lose it. The text argues that the struggle for power and status at the end of the 20th century is being played out as a war over language.
A War Of Words
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Author : Yasir Suleiman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-06-10
A War Of Words written by Yasir Suleiman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-06-10 with Social Science categories.
Yasir Suleiman's 2004 book considers national identity in relation to language, the way in which language can be manipulated to signal political, cultural or even historical difference. As a language with a long-recorded heritage and one spoken by the majority of those in the Middle East in a variety of dialects, Arabic is a particularly appropriate vehicle for such an investigation. It is also a penetrating device for exploring the conflicts of the Middle East, the diversity of its peoples and the diversity of their viewpoints. Suleiman's book offers a wealth of empirical material, and intriguing, often poignant illustrations of antagonisms articulated through pun or double entendre.
War Of Words
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Author : Sandra Silberstein
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2002
War Of Words written by Sandra Silberstein and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Foreign Language Study categories.
At first there were no words to describe the horror of September 11, only a national hush that expressed the sudden absence of so many innocent lives. Then the floodgates opened: eyewitness accounts, expert analyses, bitter denunciations, tributes to fallen heroes, patriotic exortations, eulogies.spin. Almost immediately, the Bush Administration and the media launched an unprecendented rhetorical campaign aimed at manufacturing support for the "War on Terror." A fascinating glimpse into the full impact of 9/11 on America's psyche, Warof Wordstakes a critical look at the strategic use of language to create a series of national transformations. A terrorist attack became an "act of war," requiring commensurate response. The President, until then the butt of national jokes, ascended to Commander in Chief, while the leader of the city we love to hate became "America's mayor." TV ads for cars and clothing featured flags and firemen, showing that consumerism is patriotism. With a keen ear for the hidden messages in our national stories, Sandra Silberstein unearths the dark side of this patriotic rhetoric, including the attacks on those who question U.S. policy and the denunciation of liberal intellectuals by the conservative American Council of Trustees and Alumni. Timely and penetrating, War of Wordsshows how the stories we told after the attacks fashioned a post-9/11 American identity and reinscribed our national beliefs.
Languages At War
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Author : H. Footitt
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-12-26
Languages At War written by H. Footitt and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Emphasising the significance of foreign languages at the centre of war and conflict, this book argues that 'foreignness' and foreign languages are key to our understanding of what happens in war. Through case studies the book traces the role of languages in intelligence, military deployment, soldier/civilian meetings, occupation and peace building.
War Words
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Author : Urszula Clark
language : en
Publisher: Brill
Release Date : 2001
War Words written by Urszula Clark and has been published by Brill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Education categories.
Debates about the nature of literacy and literacy practices have been conducted extensively over the years. Here, the author underlines the ideological character of such debates showing their deep historical roots. She also undertakes a comparison with other major English-speaking countries, most notably Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
Teaching Representations Of The First World War
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Author : Debra Rae Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2017-07-01
Teaching Representations Of The First World War written by Debra Rae Cohen and has been published by Modern Language Association this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The First World War saw staggering loss of life and was a catalyst for many political and social changes. It was also shaped by the media and art forms that expressed it: film, photography, poetry, memoir, posters, advertisements, and music. This volume's scope shows that today's instructors contend with many different issues in teaching the First World War in a variety of classroom settings. Among these issues are the war's relation to modernism; global reach in the Middle East and South Asia; influence on psychiatry, pacifism, and consumer culture; and effect on public health and the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Writing A War Of Words
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Author : Lynda Mugglestone
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-28
Writing A War Of Words written by Lynda Mugglestone and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark's unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create a record of often fleeting popular use. The rise of trench warfare, the Zeppelinophobia of total war, and descriptions of shellshock (and raid shock on the Home Front) all drew his attentive gaze. The archive includes examples from a range of sources, such as advertising, newspapers, and letters from the Front, as well as documenting social issues such as the shifting forms of representation as women 'did their bit' on the Home Front. Lynda's Mugglestone's fascinating investigation of this valuable archive reassesses the conventional accounts of language history during this period, recuperates Clark himself as another 'forgotten lexicographer', challenges the received wisdom on the inexpressibilities of war, and examines the role of language as an interdisciplinary lens on history.
Language Wars
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Author : Jeff Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Pluto Books
Release Date : 2005-10-20
Language Wars written by Jeff Lewis and has been published by Pluto Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-20 with Political Science categories.
Language Wars is a fascinating account of the relationship between the media, culture and new forms of global, political violence. Using an innovative approach, Jeff Lewis shows how language and the media are implicated in global terrorism and the US-led reprisals in the war on terror. Through an examination of the language of terrorism and war, Lewis illuminates key events in the current wave of political violence - the 9/11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the Beslan siege, the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bali bombings and the ongoing occupation in the Middle East. He argues that the language used to report incidents of violence has changed, not just in official channels but in wider cultural contexts, and shows the impact this has on social perceptions. Lewis deconstructs these new discourses to reveal how Islam has been construed as the antagonist of freedom, democracy and the rule of law. Ideal for students of media studies and cultural studies, this is a subtle account of the relation between language and culture that exposes a dangerous new east-west divide in popular discourse.