Talking Power: The Politics of Language

by Robin Tolmach Lakoff and Lakoff Robin Tolmach

Book Overview

Why is unintelligibility so valued in academia? How can a joke that's funny in one culture be an insult in another? In this book, a linguist answers these and other questions, revealing the ways in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465083595
• ISBN13: 9780465083596
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"