Words Matter: Meaning and Power

ISBN-13: 9781108445900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 275 str.

Sally McConnell-Ginet

Opis

Featuring current and historical concrete examples and minimising technical vocabulary, Words Matter is for all interested in examining ideas about language and its connections to social conflict and change. Accessible to general readers, the book will also be useful in linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, or other classes featuring language.

Recenzje

'… an impressive accomplishment and a valuable resource on its own, and the illuminating applications of linguistic theory make the resource yet richer … McConnell-Ginet's extensive use of case studies and the application of a wide variety of theoretical tools will serve as useful resources for researchers who wish to address any of the socially important linguistic phenomena that McConnell-Ginet presents … it will be a useful tool for teaching at a variety of levels, as it provides brief, accessible discussions of a wide variety of tools from researchers from various disciplines, as well as helpful applications to concrete cases.' Gretchen Ellefson, Metascience

Spis treści

Getting Started; 1. Labeling: “What are you, anyway?”; 2. Marking/Erasing: “Instead of saying 'normal Americans', you can just say 'Americans'”; 3. Generalizing: “All the Women were White, All the Blacks were Men, but Some of Us were Brave”; 4. Addressing: “All right, my man...keep your hands on the steering wheel; 5. Putting Down: “[They] aren't people – they're animals”; 6. Reforming/Resisting: “It's like a kind of sexual racism”; 7. Authorizing: “When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean...[but who] is to be master?”; 8. Concluding.