The materiality of language : gender, politics, and the university / David Bleich.
The author sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In this book, the author 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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2013]
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| Summary: | The author sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In this book, the author 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, he argues, 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 speakers, who may regulate it, change it, and make it flexible like other material things. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 557 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253007735 0253007739 1299652174 9781299652170 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |