Language - The Loaded Weapon: The Use and Abuse of Language Today

by Dwight Bolinger

Book Overview

Today there is a reawakening interest in how language affects our lives. It comes with every threat to our safety and every promise of better times. It is a burning issue among minorities and a running debate between the attackers and defenders of our schools. Our deepest problems all are entangled with it: What shall be the official speech of emerging nations like Zambia and the Philippines, or even in certain areas of established ones like Belgium...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582291089
• ISBN13: 9780582291089
• Release Date: October 1980
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

powerful resource for examining social aspects of language

Best resource I've yet seen for an exposition of how our use of language helps to shape our reality. Provides first-rate analysis of linguistic conventions along with numerous examples to illustrate points.