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Competing Discourses - Perspective and Ideology in Language (Paperback, New)
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Competing Discourses - Perspective and Ideology in Language (Paperback, New)
Series: Real Language Series
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This book discusses and explores the relationship between language
and world view. David Lee presents recent research in linguistics,
drawing together strands from a number of different areas of the
subject: the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories, the
role of metaphor in the everyday use of language, gender
differentiation and social variation in speech. In this study,
David Lee considers a broad range of issues in the light of two
contrasting views on language. For much of its history, linguistics
has been dominated by a tradition which sees individual languages
as uniform, homogenous systems. However, there has always been an
opposite view emphasising the complex tensions and cross-currents
inherent in linguistic usage. This alternative perspective is
explored in the analysis of a wide range of literary and
non-literary texts: casual conversations, interviews, newspaper
reports, official memoranda, television commercials and extracts
from novels. The author describes how both spoken and written texts
can be seen as the sites where tensions between "competing
discourses", stemming from different social positions and
perspectives, are illustrated.
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