Dwight Bolinger

Language - The Loaded Weapon (eBook, PDF)

The Use and Abuse of Language Today

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1980 and now reissued for the first time as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, Language - The Loaded Weapon is at once an introduction to and a critique of everything we know, or think we know, about language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000418897
• Artikelnr.: 62520133

Autorenporträt

Dwight Bolinger (1907-1992) was Emeritus Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at Harvard University (1973-1992) and Visiting Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University (1978-1992).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; Preface; Foreword to the Classic Edition; 1. Lo the
shaman 2. The nonverbal womb 3. Signs and symbols 4. Above the word 5.
Appointment in Babylon 6. Stigma, status, and standard 7. We reduced the
size because we didn't want to increase the price 8. Guns don't kill
people, people kill people 9. A case in point: sexism 10. Power and
deception 11. Another case in point: the jargonauts and the not-so-golden
fleece 12. Rival metaphors and the confection of reality 13. A last case in
point: bluenoses and coffin nails 14. School for shamans 15. An ecology of
language; Notes to chapters; Further reading; Index