Living speech :: resisting the empire of force /

Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Adve...

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1. Verfasser: White, James Boyd, 1938-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
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Zusammenfassung:Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination. How are we to assert our humanity and that of others against the forces in the culture and in our own minds that would deny it? What kind of speech should the First Amendment protect? How should judges and justices t.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 236 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400827534
1400827531
0691138370
9780691138374
1282086863
9781282086869
9786612086861
6612086866

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