The Language War : Robin Tolmach Lakoff. 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. " “Her writing is accessible and witty, and her excerpts from the media are used to great effect.” "Robin Lakoff is a national treasure. "An excellent book. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. Language and politics. The politics of language in Chinese ... The local politics of global English ... Language, politics, and society: the ... Language, nation, and state ... The power of Babel: language ... Borders of a lip: Romanticism ... Language contact at the Romance ... Europe and the politics of language ... Recommendations: The Cultural Politics of English As an International Language (Language in Social Life) by Alastair Pennycook. Recommendations: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1366-1922: A Sourcebook (Routledge Politics of Language Series) by Tony Crowley.
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