Mary Talbot / Karen Atkinson / David Atkinson (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

Language and Power in the Modern World

Beschreibung

This book explores key areas of modern society in which language is used to form power and social relations. These are presented in five sections: Language and the Media; Language and Organisations; Language and Gender; Language and Youth; and Multilingualism, Identity and Ethnicity.

Autor

Mary Talbot is a Reader in Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland. She has extensive teaching and research experience in discourse, media and gender. Her previous books include Language and Gender (1998), 'All the World and Her Husband' Women in 20th-Century Consumer Culture (with Maggie Andrews, 2000) and Language and Power in the Modern World (with Karen Atkinson and David Atkinson, EUP, 2003). Karen Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in Language Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland David Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in Spanish, University of Limerick

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 172mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 588g
• ISBN-13: 9780748615384
• ISBN-10: 0748615385
• Artikelnr.: 20996970