Language: The Unknown: An Initiation Into Linguistics

by Julia Kristeva

Book Overview

This volume addresses timely questions from an eclectic range of positions and brings together the work of academics, activists, and community leaders to examine the many functions and faces of gangs today. Analyzing the spread of gangs from New York to Texas to the West Coast, the book covers such topics as the spirituality of gangs, the place of women in gang culture, and the effect on gangs of a variety of educational programs and services for at-risk youth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231061072
• ISBN13: 9780231061070
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A seminal, important book

Language is the source of our identity. How we learn language produces a certain type of brain, brain function and method of processing our experience of the world.