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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465095303321

Autore

Bleich David

Titolo

The materiality of language [[electronic resource] ] : gender, politics, and the university / / David Bleich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-253-00773-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (575 p.)

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Language and languages - Philosophy

Rhetoric

Academic language

Colloquial language

Language and languages - Political aspects

Language and languages - Sex differences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The contested subject -- The materiality of language -- Premises and backgrounds -- Received standards in the study of language -- Materiality and genre -- The unity of language and thought -- Materiality and the contemporary study of language -- Recognizing politics in the study of language -- Language in the university -- Frustrations of academic language -- The protected institution -- The sacred language -- Language uses in science, the heir of Latin -- Language and human survival -- The materiality of literature and the contested subject.

Sommario/riassunto

David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair gender practices. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations, and



becomes available for study by all speake