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Language - the Loaded Weapon

Author : Dwight Bolinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781003195054
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Language - the Loaded Weapon written by Dwight Bolinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1980 and now reissued for the first time as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, Language - The Loaded Weapon is at once an introduction to and a critique of everything we know, or think we know, about language. This classic text explains in simple terms the essentials of linguistic form and meaning, and applies them to illuminate questions touching on issues related to: correctness; truth; class and dialect; manipulation through advertising and propaganda; sexual and other discrimination; and official obfuscation and the maintenance of power. Bolinger notes that our deepest societal problems are entangled with language, raising questions such as: What kind of English should be taught, or should there be no standard at all? What are the verbal persuasions of technology doing to our children? Which way does information flow, what are its biases, when does it inform and when conceal, and who benefits? Are the people who consider themselves experts in these matters as expert as they pretend to be? In this seminal work, Bolinger addresses all of these concerns in a way which remains as relevant to us today as it was when it was first written. With a new foreword by James Paul Gee, situating and contextualising the text in the present day, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in understanding how language has shaped the world we live in"--

Language – The Loaded Weapon

Author : Dwight Bolinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000418898
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Language – The Loaded Weapon written by Dwight Bolinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980 and now reissued for the first time as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, Language – The Loaded Weapon is at once an introduction to and a critique of everything we know, or think we know, about language. This classic text explains in simple terms the essentials of linguistic form and meaning, and applies them to illuminate questions touching on issues related to: correctness; truth; class and dialect; manipulation through advertising and propaganda; sexual and other discrimination; and official obfuscation and the maintenance of power. Bolinger notes that our deepest societal problems are entangled with language, raising questions such as: What kind of English should be taught, or should there be no standard at all? What are the verbal persuasions of technology doing to our children? Which way does information flow, what are its biases, when does it inform and when conceal, and who benefits? Are the people who consider themselves experts in these matters as expert as they pretend to be? In this seminal work, Bolinger addresses all of these concerns in a way which remains as relevant to us today as it was when it was first written. With a new foreword by James Paul Gee, situating and contextualising the text in the present day, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in understanding how language has shaped the world we live in.

Like a Loaded Weapon

Author : Robert A. Williams
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452907560
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Like a Loaded Weapon written by Robert A. Williams and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert A. Williams Jr. boldly exposes the ongoing legal force of the racist language directed at Indians in American society. Fueled by well-known negative racial stereotypes of Indian savagery and cultural inferiority, this language, Williams contends, has functioned “like a loaded weapon” in the Supreme Court’s Indian law decisions. Beginning with Chief Justice John Marshall’s foundational opinions in the early nineteenth century and continuing today in the judgments of the Rehnquist Court, Williams shows how undeniably racist language and precedent are still used in Indian law to justify the denial of important rights of property, self-government, and cultural survival to Indians. Building on the insights of Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, and Frantz Fanon, Williams argues that racist language has been employed by the courts to legalize a uniquely American form of racial dictatorship over Indian tribes by the U.S. government. Williams concludes with a revolutionary proposal for reimagining the rights of American Indians in international law, as well as strategies for compelling the current Supreme Court to confront the racist origins of Indian law and for challenging bigoted ways of talking, thinking, and writing about American Indians. Robert A. Williams Jr. is professor of law and American Indian studies at the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona. A member of the Lumbee Indian Tribe, he is author of The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest and coauthor of Federal Indian Law.

Language, the Loaded Weapon

Author : Dwight Bolinger
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Language, the Loaded Weapon written by Dwight Bolinger and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizing the recent scientific works of linguists and anthropologists with the "doctrine of correctness," the author examines the questions of correctness, truth, social dialects, propaganda, official obfuscation and the use of language by those in power to manipulate those under them.

A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun

Author : Razor Smith
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613745923
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun written by Razor Smith and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brutal and violent, this tell-all is a personal account of the life of Razor Smith and the world in which he lived, where ruthlessness, viciousness, and savagery are prized and admired. In prison more than half of his life for assaults and armed robberies, Smith became confined in a peculiar kind of hell from which his only route of escape was to master the art of writing. His book shows us a face of crime not often encountered in run-of-the-mill true-crime books: a face as tender and intimate as a lover's, yet as frightening as a killer's. Powerfully written from beginning to end, this is an extraordinarily vivid account of how a kid from South London became a career criminal, a blistering indictment of a system that brutalized young offenders, and an unsentimental acknowledgment of the adrenaline-fueled thrills of the criminal life. Shocking, fascinating, and horrifying, it also reveals Smith as one of the most talented writers of his generation.

They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded

Author : James Alan Gardner
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 0765398788
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded written by James Alan Gardner and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author James Alan Gardner returns to the superheroic fantasy world of All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault with They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded. Only days have passed since a freak accident granted four college students superhuman powers. Now Jools and her friends (who haven’t even picked out a name for their superhero team yet) get caught up in the hunt for a Mad Genius’s misplaced super-weapon. But when Jools falls in with a modern-day Robin Hood and his band of super-powered Merry Men, she finds it hard to sort out the Good Guys from the Bad Guys—and to figure out which side she truly belongs on. Especially since nobody knows exactly what the Gun does . . . .

Bomb (Graphic Novel)

Author : Steve Sheinkin
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1250291038
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Bomb (Graphic Novel) written by Steve Sheinkin and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning nonfiction book, Bomb—the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War. In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert, one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb. New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin's award-winning nonfiction book is now available reimagined in the graphic novel format. Full color illustrations from Nick Bertozzi are detailed and enriched with the nonfiction expertise Nick brings to the story as a beloved artist, comic book writer, and commercial illustrator who has written a couple of his own historical graphic novels, including Shackleton and Lewis & Clark. Accessible, gripping, and educational, this new edition of Bomb is perfect for young readers and adults alike. Praise for Bomb (2012): “This superb and exciting work of nonfiction would be a fine tonic for any jaded adolescent who thinks history is 'boring.' It's also an excellent primer for adult readers who may have forgotten, or never learned, the remarkable story of how nuclear weaponry was first imagined, invented and deployed—and of how an international arms race began well before there was such a thing as an atomic bomb.” —The Wall Street Journal “This is edge-of-the seat material that will resonate with YAs who clamor for true spy stories, and it will undoubtedly engross a cross-market audience of adults who dozed through the World War II unit in high school.” —The Bulletin (starred review) Also by Steve Sheinkin: Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War

You Just Don't Understand

Author : Deborah Tannen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062210092
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book You Just Don't Understand written by Deborah Tannen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words. Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural and intellectual phenomenon. This is the book that brought gender differences in ways of speaking to the forefront of public awareness. With a rare combination of scientific insight and delightful, humorous writing, Tannen shows why women and men can walk away from the same conversation with completely different impressions of what was said. Studded with lively and entertaining examples of real conversations, this book gives you the tools to understand what went wrong -- and to find a common language in which to strengthen relationships at work and at home. A classic in the field of interpersonal relations, this book will change forever the way you approach conversations.

Linguistics for Students of Literature

Author : Elizabeth Closs Traugott
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Linguistics for Students of Literature written by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1980 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Story of English

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571171422
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Story of English written by Robert McCrum and published by . This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Book of Karate Weapons

Author : Theodore L. Gambordella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780873646291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of Karate Weapons written by Theodore L. Gambordella and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A manual on the offensive and defensive use of karate weapons-- the knife, the yawara, the tonfa, the staff, the bo, the nunchaku, and the sai.

Language, the Loaded Weapon

Author : Dwight Bolinger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780582291089
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Language, the Loaded Weapon written by Dwight Bolinger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1980 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synthesizing the recent scientific works of linguists and anthropologists with the "doctrine of correctness," the author examines the questions of correctness, truth, social dialects, propaganda, official obfuscation and the use of language by those in power to manipulate those under them.

The English Revolver

Author : George Prescott
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764347573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book The English Revolver written by George Prescott and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous throughout the nineteenth century for the quality of its products, the English revolver industry began a steady decline after WWI from which it never recovered. Apart from the famous Webley service revolvers, many products of this important industry are little known outside of the auction house and sale room. This book sets out to rectify that situation, describing Adam's and Tranter's revolvers, as valued in their day as any of Webley's products, and including guns from the more obscure makers neglected by previous writers. In particular, the chapter on military revolvers is one of the most important sections of the book, beginning with the British government's early purchase of Colt's percussion weapon and concluding with the Webley Service revolvers, strikingly familiar to many who served in the British Army in both World Wars. Finally, many of the guns are pictured here for the first time, a number having been photographed especially for this book.

Loaded

Author : Suzanne Ramljak
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780764362781
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Loaded written by Suzanne Ramljak and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works by nearly 100 of today's prominent artists ask questions about the many cultural issues firearms trigger, leaving the answers up to you, the viewer. This invigorating survey of contemporary art and guns offers insight into the mixed associations of firearms in today's culture. Situating these artworks within the contexts of fire domestication, weapon history, social movements, and art history, the book touches on questions of power, equality, access, and the current debates surrounding gun use. What emerges is the inherently dualistic nature of firearms, which are both protective and destructive, empowering and enfeebling, supporting peace and war, life and death. While this central ambivalence can't be captured in statistical data or media sound bites, it thrives within these complex visual works. This collection by some 100 prominent artists reveals a striking diversity of viewpoints on guns, highlighting their inescapable duplicity and the compelling role they have come to play within our lives and imaginations. The first in the new series Art à la Carte: books offering us easy access to exploring current art via real-life themes.

Imaginary Weapons

Author : Sharon Weinberger
Publisher : Nation Books
ISBN 13 : 9781568583297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Weapons written by Sharon Weinberger and published by Nation Books. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how a lunatic fringe science project became favored by Rumsfeld's Pentagon.

Aspects of Language

Author : Dwight Bolinger
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Language written by Dwight Bolinger and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1975 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language as Symbolic Power

Author : Claire Kramsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108835864
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Language as Symbolic Power written by Claire Kramsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kramsch combines insights from linguistics, anthropology and sociology to show how language represents and constructs social reality.