Literature Language And Politics

Author : Betty Jean Craige
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820338071

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Literature, Language, and Politics by Betty Jean Craige Pdf

Literature, Language, and Politics brings together papers drawn from and inspired by the controversial, landmark symposium on “Politics and the Discipline” held at the 1987 Modern Language Association meeting in San Francisco. During the 1980s, debates raged both within and outside academe over curriculum, with conservatives arguing for a return to an educational philosophy based on the “classics” of Western civilization and a multi-cultural coalition of liberals, leftists, and feminists seeking to preserve the diversity of educational experience fought for since the 1960s. Engaging this crucial debate, the contributors to Literature, Language, and Politics argue that the conservative educational agenda imperils not only scholarship and academic freedom but the very social well-being of the nation. They call for firm resistance to any attempts to make education conform to the social agenda of one race, one gender, one language, or one ideology; for a continuation of attempts to broaden the curriculum until it reflects the experience of women and men of all classes and all cultures. Includes essays by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Gerald Graff, Annette Kolodny, Paul Lauter, Ellen Messer-Davidow, Catharine R. Stimpson, and Ana Celia Zentella.

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1902593820

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Language and Politics by Noam Chomsky Pdf

An indispensable guide through the work of the world's most influential living intellectual.

Author : Christina Späti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781782389439

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Language and Identity Politics by Christina Späti Pdf

In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often fraught subject for most societies. The growing political salience of questions relating to language is evident not only in the expanded implementation of new policies and legislation, but also in heated public debates about national unity, collective identities, and the rights of linguistic minorities. By taking a comprehensive approach that considers both the inclusive and exclusive dimensions of linguistic identity across Europe and North America, the studies assembled here provide a sophisticated look at one of the global era’s defining political dynamics.

Author : Sylvia Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107080881

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Women, Language and Politics by Sylvia Shaw Pdf

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

Author : John Barrell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0719024412

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Poetry, Language, and Politics by John Barrell Pdf

Author : Mark Thompson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466864726

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Enough Said by Mark Thompson Pdf

There’s a crisis of trust in politics across the western world. Public anger is rising and faith in conventional political leaders and parties is falling. Anti-politics, and the anti-politicians, have arrived. In Enough Said, President and CEO of The New York Times Company Mark Thompson argues that one of the most significant causes of the crisis is the way our public language has changed. Enough Said tells the story of how we got from the language of FDR and Churchill to that of Donald Trump. It forensically examines the public language we’ve been left with: compressed, immediate, sometimes brilliantly impactful, but robbed of most of its explanatory power. It studies the rhetoric of western leaders from Reagan and Thatcher to Berlesconi, Blair, and today’s political elites on both sides of the Atlantic. And it charts how a changing public language has interacted with real world events – Iraq, the financial crash, the UK's surprising Brexit from the EU, immigration – and led to a mutual breakdown of trust between politicians and journalists, to leave ordinary citizens suspicious, bitter, and increasingly unwilling to believe anybody. Drawing from classical as well as contemporary examples and ranging across politics, business, science, technology, and the arts, Enough Said is a smart and shrewd look at the erosion of language by an author uniquely placed to measure its consequences.

Author : Heidi Grönstrand,Markus Huss,Ralf Kauranen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429536427

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The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders by Heidi Grönstrand,Markus Huss,Ralf Kauranen Pdf

This collection showcases a multivalent approach to the study of literary multilingualism, embodied in contemporary Nordic literature. While previous approaches to literary multilingualism have tended to take a textual or authorship focus, this book advocates for a theoretical perspective which reflects the multiplicity of languages in use in contemporary literature emerging from increased globalization and transnational interaction. Drawing on a multimodal range of examples from contemporary Nordic literature, these eighteen chapters illustrate the ways in which multilingualism is dynamic rather than fixed, resulting from the interactions between authors, texts, and readers as well as between literary and socio-political institutions. The book highlights the processes by which borders are formed within the production, circulation, and reception of literature and in turn, the impact of these borders on issues around cultural, linguistic, and national belonging. Introducing an innovative approach to the study of multilingualism in literature, this collection will be of particular interest to students and researchers in literary studies, cultural studies, and multilingualism.

Author : Arnold Kling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1948647427

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The Three Languages of Politics by Arnold Kling Pdf

Now available in its 3rd edition, with new commentary on political psychology and communication in the Trump era, Kling's book could not be any more timely, as Americans--whether as media pundits or conversing at a party--talk past one another with even greater volume, heat, and disinterest in contrary opinions.The Three Languages of Politics it is a book about how we communicate issues and our ideologies, and how language intended to persuade instead divides.

Author : John E. Joseph
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748626977

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Language and Politics by John E. Joseph Pdf

Language, this book argues, is political from top to bottom, whether considered at the level of an individual speaker's choice of language or style of discourse with others (where interpersonal politics are performed), or at the level of political rhetoric, or indeed all the way up to the formation of national languages. By bringing together this set of topics and highlighting how they are interrelated, the book will function well as a textbook on any applied or sociolinguistic course in which some or all of these various aspects of the politics of language are covered.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Renard Press Ltd
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781913724306

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Politics and the English Language by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

Author : Selma K. Sonntag,Mark Turin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783747048

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The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya by Selma K. Sonntag,Mark Turin Pdf

This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact. Promoting a linguistically and historically grounded perspective, The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya offers nuanced insights into language and its relation to power in this geopolitically complex region. Edited by respected scholars in the field, the collection comprises five new research contributions by established and early-career researchers who have been significantly engaged in the Himalayan region. Grounded in a commitment to theoretically informed area studies, and covering Tibet (China), Assam (India), and Nepal, each case study is situated within contemporary debates in sociolinguistics, political science, and language policy and planning. Bridging disciplines and transcending nation-states, the volume offers a unique contribution to the study of language contact and its political implications. The Politics of Language Contact in the Himalaya is essential reading for researchers in the fields of language policy and planning, applied linguistics, and language and literary education. The detailed introduction and concluding commentary make the collection accessible to all social scientists concerned with questions of language, and the volume as a whole will be of interest to scholars in anthropology, sociolinguistics, political science and Asian studies.

Author : Ruth Wodak,Bernhard Forchtner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 971 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351728966

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The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics by Ruth Wodak,Bernhard Forchtner Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of this important and dynamic area of study and research. Language is indispensable to initiating, justifying, legitimatising and coordinating action as well as negotiating conflict and, as such, is intrinsically linked to the area of politics. With 45 chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, this Handbook covers the following key areas: Overviews of the most influential theoretical approaches, including Bourdieu, Foucault, Habermas and Marx; Methodological approaches to language and politics, covering – among others – content analysis, conversation analysis, multimodal analysis and narrative analysis; Genres of political action from speech-making and policy to national anthems and billboards; Cutting-edge case studies about hot-topic socio-political phenomena, such as ageing, social class, gendered politics and populism. The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics is a vibrant survey of this key field and is essential reading for advanced students and researchers studying language and politics.

Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Polity
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745645308

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Politics of Literature by Jacques Rancière Pdf

The politics of literature is not the same as the politics of writers and their commitments, nor does it concern the way writers represent social structures or political struggles. The expression 'politics of literature' assumes that there is a specific connection between politics as a form of collective practice and literature as a historically determined regime of the art of writing. It implies that literature intervenes in the parceling out of space and time, place and identity, speech and noise, the visible and the invisible, that is the arena of the political. This book seeks to show how the literary revolution shatters the perceptible order that underpinned traditional hierarchies, but also why literary equality foils any bid to place literature in the service of politics or in its place. It tests its hypotheses on certain writers: Flaubert, Tolstoy, Hugo, Mallarmé, Brecht and Borges, to name a few. It also shows the consequences of this for psychoanalytical intepretation, historical narration and philosophical conceptualization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791482292

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Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva by Anonim Pdf

In Language and Politics in Julia Kristeva, Carol Mastrangelo Bové explores how Kristeva's theoretical and fictional writings contribute to an understanding of contemporary personal and international conflicts. In addition to examining Kristeva's turn to Eastern models—both Russian and Chinese—in thinking through a critique of symbolic language in Western patriarchal psychic formations, Bové also contributes to the debate over essentialism through innovative interpretations of such major works of twentieth-century French culture as Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, Simone de Beauvoir's She Came to Stay, François Truffaut's Jules and Jim, and Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game. Bové argues that the links between the body and the female, on the one hand, and authority and the male, on the other, are psychologically constructed, and are not necessarily or exclusively biological. The book concludes with an examination of Kristeva's Colette.

Author : Michael L. Geis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781461247142

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The Language of Politics by Michael L. Geis Pdf

This study is the second of two I have done concerning how language is used to persuade others to believe things and to do things. The first, published by Aca demic Press, was The Language of Television Advertising, and was concerned with how advertisers use language in their efforts to sell products and services and how consumers could be expected to understand it. In this study, the focus is on how politicians use language to win elections and get others to accept their policies and programs and on how journalists report the suasive efforts of politicans. I combine an interest in the language of political reporting with an interest in the language of politics for a number of reasons. First, much of the suasive rhetoric of politicians is filtered through the minds of political journalists before it reaches the citizenry, and we can be reasonably sure that this rhetoric does not come out the way it went in. Second, the press plays a significant role in deter mining the nation's political agenda through its choices of what issues will be presented to the public, how these issues will be presented, and which voices will be heard speaking out on these issues. Third, political reporting can be suasive in effect, if not in intent, and it will be useful, I think, to understand how this is so.