The Language War (Paperback, Revised)

This text gets to the heart of a pressing issue in American society: who holds power and how they use it, keep it, or lose it. In a discussion of the news events that have occupied an enormous amount of media space in the late-20th century - political correctness, the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Lady, O.J. Simpson's murder trial, the Ebonics controversy, and the Clinton sex scandal - author Robin Lakoff shows that the struggle for power and status at the end of the century is being played out as a war over language. Controlling language is a basis for all power, she says, and therefore it is worth fighting for. As a result, newly emergent groups, especially blacks and women, are contending with middle- to upper-class white men for a share in "language rights".

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2001
First published:	2000
Authors:	Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	332
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-23207-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-23207-0
Barcode:	9780520232075

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