Whose Language?
A study in Linguistic Pragmatics
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1985
IX, 412 pages
978-90-272-7953-8 (ISBN)
Description
"For the colonized person, objectivity is always directed against him" (Frantz Fanon). Colonized persons do not live on what we call (or used to call) the "colonies" alone. In general, objective reality, or the "facts of life", are very different depending on the kind of life you can afford. This goes for language as well; and it explains both the title of this book, and gives it its "raison d'être". It deals with power in language, and asks: Who is really in command when we use "our" language? And why does it make sense to talk about a language of power (or lack of it)? The powerful are the colonizers, the colonized are the powerless, in language as in geopolitics. Colonizers and colonized alike, however, are subject to the social and economic conditions prevailing in society and therefore, a thorough analysis of these conditions is a must for any socially-oriented theory of language use.
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Content
- WHOSE LANGUAGE?
- Title page
- Copyright page
- LANGUAGE AND CAPITALISM1
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 0. About this book
- 0.0. Preliminary Remarks
- 0.0.1. Acknowledgments
- 0.1.Introduction
- 0.1.1. What's it all about?
- 0.1.2. Language and society
- Chapter 1. Language and manipulation
- 1.0. The cement of society
- 1.1. Manipulatory language: general
- 1.1.0. Introduction: Of language and railroads
- 1.1.1. Manipulatory veiling: Oppression and repression
- 1.1.2. Manipulation in actual language use
- 1.1.2.1. Formal manipulation
- 1.1.2.2. Manipulation and content
- 1.1.2.3. Manipulatory speech acts
- 1.1.3. Manipulation and society
- 1.1.3.1. The sociological genesis
- 1.1.3.2. Society's bad consciousness: consumerism and advertising
- 1.2. Manipulatory language: special
- 1.2.0. Introduction
- 1.2.1. Testing and voting
- 1.2.2. The interview
- 1.2.3. The examination situation and 'academese'
- 1.2.4. On talking with children
- 1.3. Concluding remarks
- Chapter 2. Language and industry
- 2.0. introduction: Data selection
- 2.1. DR and the Oil Strike
- 2.1.0. Introduction. Radio Denmark: A State Institution
- 2.1.1. Radio Manipulation
- 2.1.1.0. Introduction
- 2.1.1.1. Topics
- 2.1.1.2. Biases
- 2.1.1.3. Means and Ends
- 2.1.1.3.0. Introduction
- 2.1.1.3.1. The wage and price freeze
- 2.1.1.3.2. A change of government?
- 2.2. Immigrant language education
- 2.2.0. Introduction: Society and migrant labor
- 2.2.1. "Swedish For You" by the Swedish Radio (SR)
- 2.2.2. Technical language for immigrants
- 2.2.2.0. Introduction. The problem and its history
- 2.2.2.1. Teaching technical language: A sample
- 2.2.2.2. Evaluating the FIA-texts
- Chapter 3. Making a theory
- 3.0. Introduction
- 3.1. Wording
- 3.1.1. Program language
- 3.1.2. Wording or socialization?
- 3.2. Language's rationale
- 3.3. Wording and society
- 3.3.0. Introduction
- 3.3.1. Society's structure
- 3.3.1.0. Introduction
- 3.3.1.1. Division of labor
- 3.3.1.2. The use of language and the division of labor
- 3.3.1.3. Twisting and fetishism
- 3.3.1.4. Money consciousness
- 3.4. Words and commodities
- 3.4.0. Introduction
- 3.4.1. The commodity society
- 3.4.2. Contradiction and manipulation
- 3.5. Industrial wording
- 3.5.0. Introduction. Advanced industrial society
- 3.5.1. Industrialism and language: The theory
- 3.5.1.0. Introduction. The minimax problem
- 3.5.1.1. Twisting and fetishizing in language use
- 3.5.1.2. Differences in language use
- 3.5.1.2.1. Codes
- 3.5.1.2.2. Deficient or different?
- 3.5.1.2.3. Class language
- 3.5.1.3. Language as qualification
- 3.5.1.3.1. The language of prestige
- 3.5.1.3.2. Functional language use
- 3.5.1.4. The fetish of correctness
- 3.5.2. Language and industrialism: The practice
- 3.5.2.0. Introduction
- 3.5.2.1. Talk-in-the-work: The language of production
- 3.5.2.1.1. Industry's silent majority
- 3.5.2.1.2. "Whistle while you work...
- 3.5.2.2. The language of circulation
- 3.5.2.2.0. Introduction
- 3.5.2.2.1. Language and the circulation process
- 3.5.2.2.2. Circulation and manipulation
- 3.5.2.2.3. 'His Master's Voice'
- 3.5.2.2.4. 'Legalese' and the wording of contracts
- 3.5.2.3. The language of reproduction: Classroom language and 'compensatory education'
- 3.5.2.4. Language acquisition and profits
- 3.5.2.5. Language in action: Too old to learn, too young to act?
- 3.5.2.6. The language of the news
- 3.5.2.7. Language and culture
- 3.6. A double logic
- Chapter 4. What about linguistics?
- 4.0. Introduction. Science and method
- 4.1. A tale of two tongues
- 4.2. Linguistic oppression
- 4.3. Social linguistics
- 4.4. Sexism and reversal
- 4.5. Language and power
- REFERENCES
- PERSON INDEX
