Talking Power: The Politics of Language
Book Details
Author(s)
Robin Tolmach Lakoff
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN / ASIN
0465083587
ISBN-13
9780465083589
Sales Rank
#4,570,207
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
Why is unintelligibility so valued in academia? How can a joke that's funny in one culture be an insult in another? In this book, a linguist answers these and other questions, revealing the ways in which what we say and how we say it help us to accomplish our aims.
