03200nam 2200673Ia 450 991046509530332120200520144314.00-253-00773-9(CKB)2560000000102384(EBL)1211182(SSID)ssj0000892035(PQKBManifestationID)11543978(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000892035(PQKBWorkID)10897431(PQKB)10021954(MiAaPQ)EBC1211182(OCoLC)848902298(MdBmJHUP)muse29181(Au-PeEL)EBL1211182(CaPaEBR)ebr10718815(CaONFJC)MIL496467(EXLCZ)99256000000010238420121118d2013 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe materiality of language[electronic resource] gender, politics, and the university /David BleichBloomington Indiana University Press20131 online resource (575 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-00772-0 0-253-00771-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 speakeLanguage and languagesPhilosophyRhetoricAcademic languageColloquial languageLanguage and languagesPolitical aspectsLanguage and languagesSex differencesElectronic books.Language and languagesPhilosophy.Rhetoric.Academic language.Colloquial language.Language and languagesPolitical aspects.Language and languagesSex differences.401Bleich David990802MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465095303321The materiality of language2267116UNINA