
Language and Power in the Modern World
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- Introduction
- 1. Language and the Media
- What's distinct about media language?
- Constructions of common sense: the case of rascism
- 'Ethnic' topics
- Lexical and syntactical choices
- Rhetoric
- Broadcast talk
- Radio phone-ins
- Mediatised political language
- Activities
- Readings
- 2. Language and Organisations
- What's language got to do with organisations?
- The languages of social welfare
- Institutional categories and constructions
- Accommodation and resistance
- Conversationalisation
- 'Styling' the Worker
- Activities
- Readings
- 3. Language and Gender
- Male and Female Interactional Styles
- 'You can be the baby brother, but you aren't born yet': co-operating while competing
- Misunderstanding conflict and social change
- Exploring the Maintainance of Patriachal Power
- 'Father knows best': narrative roles in family dinnertable talk
- Male dominance: rhetoric and violence
- Activities
- Readings
- 4. Language and Youth
- 'Youth culture' and 'power': some questions of definition
- Secrecy, challenge and status
- Creating discursive space
- 'Telling their own stories'
- Language, education and African American youth
- The ebonics controversy
- Dissin' the standard: language as 'rhetorical resistance'
- Narrating the other
- Parodying racism and subverting racial meanings
- 'Nicing up': white appropriation of black codes
- Crossing playful transgression or power discourse?
- 'Nerdy hyperwhiteness: superstandard English and racial marking
- Activities
- Readings
- 5. Multilingualism, Ethnicity and Identity
- English in the world today
- The language question in Hong Kong
- The unique position of English in the world and the background to it
- The effects of the dominance of English
- 'English only'? English in the USA
- What is the promotion of English really about?
- The background to the 'English only' lobby
- How threatened is English?
- Language policy and language planning
- The scale of the problem
- Macro and micro approaches
- A case study: Catalan in Catalonia
- The historical background
- The limits of language planning and policy
- The Rambleros and the Trepas: youth, gender and ethnicity in Barcelona
- Activities
- Readings
- Glossary
- Transcription key
- Bibliography
- Index
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