The Language War - Hardcover

Robin Tolmach Lakoff

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ISBN 10: 0520222962 ISBN 13: 9780520222960

Publisher: UNIV OF CA PRESS+, 2000

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The Language War

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"Robin Lakoff is a national treasure. She is one of the most astute and knowledgeable linguists in the country (indeed, in the world), and one of the few who turns her analytic eye to the role of language in popular and political culture. It was she who pioneered the field of gender and language. She is poised to be recognized among the general reading public as she has long been recognized in the field of linguistics."--Deborah Tannen, author of You Just Don't Understand and The Argument Culture

"An excellent book. Robin Lakoff shows that if we do not understand how language is put to work in our world, we cannot understand our world, nor live in it effectively."--John Fiske, author of Media Matters

About the Author:

Robin Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Talking Power: The Politics of Language in Our Lives (1990), Face Value: The Politics of Beauty (1984), and Language and Woman's Place (1975).

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