Language The Loaded Weapon
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Routledge (October 15, 1980)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0582291089
ISBN-13: 978-0582291089
Description :
Today there is a reawakening interest in how
language affects our lives. It comes with every threat to our safety and
every promise of better times. It is a burning issue among minorities
and a running debate between the attackers and defenders of our schools.
Our deepest problems all are entangled with it: What shall be the
official speech of emerging nations like Zambia and the Philippines, or
even in certain areas of established ones like Belgium and Canada? What
kind of English should be taught, or should there be no standard at all?
How is government to make its regulations understandable? What are the
verbal persuasions of television doing to our children? Which way does
information flow, what are its biases, when does it inform and when
conceal, and who benefits? Are the people who consider themselves
experts in these matters as expert as they pretend to be? We feel adrift
in a sea of words, and would welcome and a chart and a compass.
Language – The Loaded Weapon offers a glimpse of what the recent study of language is beginning to tell us about these things. It explains in simple terms the essentials of linguistic form and meaning, and applies them to illuminate questions of correctness, truth, class and dialect, manipulation through advertising and propaganda, sexual and other discrimination, official obfuscation and the maintenance of power, and – most pervasive of all – language as the vital agent with which we build our worlds. Explaining language has been Dwight Bolinger’s life work, and as his invigorating new book amply shows he believes that what is true and important can also be made clear and pleasurable.
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Language – The Loaded Weapon offers a glimpse of what the recent study of language is beginning to tell us about these things. It explains in simple terms the essentials of linguistic form and meaning, and applies them to illuminate questions of correctness, truth, class and dialect, manipulation through advertising and propaganda, sexual and other discrimination, official obfuscation and the maintenance of power, and – most pervasive of all – language as the vital agent with which we build our worlds. Explaining language has been Dwight Bolinger’s life work, and as his invigorating new book amply shows he believes that what is true and important can also be made clear and pleasurable.
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