Language - The Loaded Weapon: The Use and Abuse of Language Today

ISBN-13: 9781032048949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 264 str.

Dwight Bolinger

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword to the Classic Edition; 1. Lo the shaman 2. The nonverbal womb 3. Signs and symbols 4. Above the word 5. Appointment in Babylon 6. Stigma, status, and standard 7. We reduced the size because we didn’t want to increase the price 8. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people 9. A case in point: sexism 10. Power and deception 11. Another case in point: the jargonauts and the not-so-golden fleece 12. Rival metaphors and the confection of reality 13. A last case in point: bluenoses and coffin nails 14. School for shamans 15. An ecology of language; Notes to chapters; Further reading; Index

O autorze

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).