Competing Discourses: Language and Ideology (Real Language Series) - Hardcover

Lee, David A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0582078490 ISBN 13: 9780582078499

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Synopsis

The relationship between language, perspective and ideology is an issue that has long aroused the interest of a wide audience: linguists, literary theorists, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, communication theorists. This book approaches the question through recent work in linguistics and sociolinguistics. It begins by considering those characteristics of language that make it an ideal instrument for the mediation of perspective, with a particular focus on the processes of categorization and selection. Of particular interest is the problematic nature of the fit between language and reality.

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"The strength of this book lies in its careful construction and application of a powerful thesis...This book offers useful negotiations across those boundaries, artificial and natural, that foil and facilitate human inquiry."Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582078490
• ISBN 13: 9780582078499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224