Words matter: Meaning and power
Publication details: United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2020.Description: xviii, 320 p. ref., ind. 21 cm x 14 cmISBN:- 978-1108445900
- 306.44 MCC
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Recommended By: Suryansha Rawat
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Labeling: What are you, anyway?
Shifting Ethnic/Racial Labels for a Single Individual?
What Do Ethnic and Racial Identity Labels Label?
Deep Historical Antecedents to Recent Labeling ; Disputes: Latino vs Hispanic
Creating Labels to Mobilize Groups: the case of Asian American
My Mom Says It's Not Polite to Call Someone Black
Tracking People: Sex/Gender Labels
One Name to Rule Them All: Strategic Labeling
Dances
Labeling vs Describing
Marking/Erasing: Instead of Saying 'Normal Americans,' You Can Just Say 'Americans'.
Marking and Erasing: First Pass
Us vs Them Marking
How did English Man Lose its Generic Inclusiveness?
Squeezing Marked Subcategory Members Out: Where are the Women?
Who is an 'Unmarked'
'Normal'
American? ; Modifiers and Marking
Jocks, You're Not Aware of It: Becoming 'Normal' People
Trying to Mark Dominant Groups: The Politics of Cisgender and its Kin
Generalizing: All the women are White, all the Blacks are Men, but some of Us are Brave.
Implicit Stereotypes and Prejudices
Colorblind?
Black Lives Matter...Or Should!
Quantificational Generalizing: Who Counts?
Generic Generalizations: When Do They Essentialize?
Norms
Addressing: All Right, My Man...Keep Your Hands on the Steering Wheel.
Vocatives
Power and Solidarity
English Address (and Reference) Resources
Naming, Nicknaming, and Authority
Being (In)Considerate, (Dis)Respectful, (Im)Polite
Putting Down: [They] Aren't People
They're Animals.
Words Will Never Hurt Me
Malevolent Metaphorical Moves
Escalating Language Games S-words Nearer to My Home
Native American Team Names and Mascots
In Whose Honor?
Slurs Targeting Women
Other Insults and (Apparent) Name-Calling
Reclamation: A Success Story?
Reforming/Resisting: It's Like a Kind of Sexual Racism.
Birth of sexism
Reshaping Existing Linguistic Resources: The Case of Racism and Racist
Is it About Language?: Redefining Rape
Preferred Gender Pronouns
Euphemism vs Identity-Affirmation or Correction
Authorizing: When I Use a Word it Means Just What I Choose it to Mean...[But Who] is to be Master?
Dictionaries
Division of Linguistic Labor: Expertise
Dueling Experts: the Pluto wars
Courts Authorizing Meanings: Fruit and Marriage
Inclusive Language Guidelines: Prescribing and Proscribing
Politically Correct (PC): Virtue-Signaling and Mockery
Empowering First-Person Semantic authority
Communities Are the Ultimate Semantic Authorities
Concluding. Does It Seem Crazy? Why?
Using Language Recommendations to Expand Minds
Naming Frontiers
Typographical Distinctions: Boundary-Policing and Dog-Whistling
Why Don't You Go Back Where You Came From?
Framing the Free Speech Debate
Linguistic Change can be Painful.
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