Competing Discourses: Perspective and Ideology in Language

by David A. Lee and David Lee

Book Overview

This book discusses and explores the relationship between language and world view. David Lee presents recent research in linguistics, drawing together strands from a number of different areas of the subject: the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories, the role of metaphor in the everyday use of language, gender differentiation and social variation in speech.

In this study, David Lee considers a broad range of issues in the light of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582078504
• ISBN13: 9780582078505
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"