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Language - The Loaded Weapon

By Dwight Bolinger

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Language - The Loaded Weapon

By Dwight Bolinger

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
1980-10-13
Publication Date:
1980-10-13
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0582291089
ISBN13:
9780582291089
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
291 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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