The materiality of language : gender, politics, and the university / / David Bleich

• Autore: Bleich David
• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (575 p.)
• Disciplina: 401
• Soggetto topico: Language and languages - Philosophy; Rhetoric; Academic language; Colloquial language; Language and languages - Political aspects; Language and languages - Sex differences
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The materiality of language
• ISBN: 0-253-00773-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821811003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II