The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University - Couverture souple

Bleich, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0253007720 ISBN 13 : 9780253007728

Editeur : Indiana University Press, 2013

Synopsis

David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair gender practices. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations, and becomes available for study by all speakers, who may regulate it, change it, and make it flexible like other material things.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Bleich is Professor of English at the University of Rochester and author of Know and Tell: A Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership and The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations, among other books.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indiana University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0253007720
• ISBN 13: 9780253007728
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 557
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• Personne responsable: non disponible