Words matter : meaning and power
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- ISBN: 9781108427210
- ISBN: 1108427219
- ISBN: 9781108445900
- ISBN: 110844590X
- ISBN: 9781108641302
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xviii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm - Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Labeling: "What are you, anyway?" -- Shifting Ethnic/Racial Labels for a Single Individual? -- What Do Ethnic and Racial Identity Labels Label? -- Deep Historical Antecedents to Recent Labeling ; Disputes: Latino vs Hispanic -- Creating Labels to Mobilize Groups: the case of Asian American -- "My Mom Says It's Not Polite to Call Someone Black" -- Tracking People: Sex/Gender Labels -- "One Name to Rule Them All": Strategic Labeling -- Dances -- Labeling vs Describing -- Marking/Erasing: "Instead of Saying 'Normal Americans,' You Can Just Say 'Americans'". -- Marking and Erasing: First Pass -- Us vs Them Marking -- How did English Man Lose its Generic Inclusiveness? -- Squeezing Marked Subcategory Members Out: Where are the Women? -- Who is an 'Unmarked'--'Normal'--American? ; Modifiers and Marking -- "Jocks, You're Not Aware of It": Becoming 'Normal' People -- Trying to Mark Dominant Groups: The Politics of Cisgender and its Kin -- Generalizing: "All the women are White, all the Blacks are Men, but some of Us are Brave." -- Implicit Stereotypes and Prejudices -- Colorblind? -- Black Lives Matter...Or Should! -- Quantificational Generalizing: Who Counts? -- Generic Generalizations: When Do They Essentialize? -- Norms -- Addressing: "All Right, My Man...Keep Your Hands on the Steering Wheel." -- Vocatives -- Power and Solidarity -- English Address (and Reference) Resources -- Naming, Nicknaming, and Authority -- Being (In)Considerate, (Dis)Respectful, (Im)Polite -- Putting Down: "[They] Aren't People--They're Animals." -- "Words Will Never Hurt Me" -- Malevolent Metaphorical Moves -- Escalating Language Games S-words Nearer to My Home -- Native American Team Names and Mascots -- "In Whose Honor?" -- Slurs Targeting Women -- Other Insults and (Apparent) Name-Calling -- Reclamation: A Success Story? -- Reforming/Resisting: "It's Like a Kind of Sexual Racism." -- Birth of sexism -- Reshaping Existing Linguistic Resources: The Case of Racism and Racist -- Is it About Language?: Redefining Rape -- Preferred Gender Pronouns -- Euphemism vs "Identity-Affirmation" or "Correction" -- Authorizing: "When I Use a Word it Means Just What I Choose it to Mean...[But Who] is to be Master?" -- Dictionaries -- Division of Linguistic Labor: Expertise -- Dueling Experts: the Pluto wars -- Courts Authorizing Meanings: Fruit and Marriage -- Inclusive Language Guidelines: Prescribing and Proscribing -- Politically Correct (PC): Virtue-Signaling and Mockery -- Empowering First-Person Semantic authority -- Communities Are the Ultimate Semantic Authorities -- Concluding. Does It Seem Crazy? Why? -- Using Language Recommendations to Expand Minds -- Naming Frontiers -- Typographical Distinctions: Boundary-Policing and Dog-Whistling -- "Why Don't You Go Back Where You Came From?" -- Framing the Free Speech Debate -- Linguistic Change can be Painful. |
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Subject: | Sociolinguistics Interpersonal communication Linguistic change Language and culture |
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Kirtland Community College Library | P 40 .M33 2020 | 30775305563315 | General Collection | Available | - |