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9780520222960

Language War

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520222960

  • ISBN10:

    0520222962

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: University of California Press
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Author Biography

Robin Tomach Lakoff is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. What I Am Doing Here, and How I Am Doing It 1(16)
Language: The Power We Love to Hate
17(25)
The Neutrality of the Status Quo
42(44)
``Political Correctness'' and Hate Speech: The Word as Sword
86(32)
Mad, Bad, and Had: The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Narrative(s)
118(40)
Hillary Rodham Clinton: What the Sphinx Thinks
158(36)
Who Framed ``O.J.''?
194(33)
Ebonics---It's Chronic
227(25)
The Story of Ugh
252(31)
Notes 283(20)
References 303(10)
Index 313

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