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Language - The Loaded Weapon - The use and abuse of language today (Hardcover)
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Language - The Loaded Weapon - The use and abuse of language today (Hardcover)
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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 aEURO"
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 aEURO" most pervasive of all aEURO"
language as the vital agent with which we build our worlds.
Explaining language has been Dwight BolingeraEURO (TM)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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