Language - The Loaded Weapon
The Use and Abuse of Language Today
First published in 1980 and now reissued for the first time as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, Language - The Loaded Weapon is at once an introduction to and a critique of everything we know, or think we know, about language. This classic text explains in simple terms the essentials of linguistic form and meaning, and applies them to illuminate questions touching on issues related to: correctness; truth; class and dialect; manipulation through advertising and propaganda; sexual and other discrimination; and official obfuscation and the maintenance of power. Bolinger notes that our deepest societal problems are entangled with language, raisin…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-00-041892-7
- EAN: 9781000418927
- Produktnummer: 35818077
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Dwight Bolinger (1907-1992) was Emeritus Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard University (1973-1992) and Visiting Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University (1978-1992).
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