Talking Power

by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and Lakoff Robin Tolmach

Book Overview

Why is unintelligibility so valued in academia? How can a joke that's funny in one culture be an insult in another? In this book, a linguist answers these and other questions, revealing the ways in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465083587
• ISBN13: 9780465083589
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.