Whose Language: A Study in Linguistic Pragmatics - Couverture souple

Mey, Jacob L.

 
9780915027576: Whose Language: A Study in Linguistic Pragmatics
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ISBN 10 : 0915027577 ISBN 13 : 9780915027576
Editeur : John Benjamins Pub Co, 1985

Présentation de l'éditeur

"For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him" (Frantz Fanon). Colonized persons do not live on what we call (or used to call) the "colonies" alone. In general, objective reality, or the "facts of life", are very different depending on the kind of life you can afford. This goes for language as well; and it explains both the title of this book, and gives it its "raison d'être". It deals with power in language, and asks: Who is really in command when we use "our" language? And why does it make sense to talk about a language of power (or lack of it)? The powerful are the colonizers, the colonized are the powerless, in language as in geopolitics. Colonizers and colonized alike, however, are subject to the social and economic conditions prevailing in society and therefore, a thorough analysis of these conditions is a must for any socially-oriented theory of language use.

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Éditeur
John Benjamins Pub Co
Date d'édition
1985
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0915027577
ISBN 13 
9780915027576
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9780915027613: Whose Language: A Study in the Pragmatics of Language Use

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ISBN 10 :  0915027615 ISBN 13 :  9780915027613
Editeur : John Benjamins Pub Co, 1985
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