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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49570130 Title: The language war Author: Robin Tolmach Lakoff Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000. ©2000 ISBN/ISSN: 9780520928077 0520928075 0585389888 9780585389882 0520232070 9780520232075 1597347019 9781597347013 9786612355905 6612355905 1282355902 9781282355903 OCLC:49570130

  
  

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The language war

Author:	Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher:	Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000. ©2000
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"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's 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 language - in short, to possess power. Because language tells us how we're connected to one another, who has power and who doesn't, the stories reflect the language war."--Jacket.  Read more...
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Subjects	Sociolinguistics -- United States. United States -- Languages -- Political aspects. Mass media and language -- United States. View all subjects
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