Sally Mcconnell-Ginet

Words Matter

Meaning and Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

History and current affairs show that words matter - and change - because they are woven into our socio-political lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 275
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 146mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781108427210
• ISBN-10: 1108427219
• Artikelnr.: 59483031

Autorenporträt

Sally McConnell-Ginet is Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Cornell University and a Past President of the Linguistic Society of America.

Inhaltsangabe

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.