BOOKS - The Materiality of Language
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The Materiality of Language
Author: David Bleich
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 6.9 MB
Language: English
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 6.9 MB
Language: English
A critique of male dominated modes of language use their roots in higher education their effects and their spill over into popular culture 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
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