1st Edition

Competing Discourses Perspective and Ideology in Language

By David Lee Copyright 1992
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

This book discusses and explores the relationship between language and world view. David Lee presents recent research in linguistics, drawing together strands from a number of different areas of the subject: the nature of linguistic and conceptual categories, the role of metaphor in the everyday use of language, gender differentiation and social variation in speech. In this study, David Lee... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Classification and selection
2. Grammar, categories and world-view
3. Language and world-view: Golding and Faulkner
4. Metaphor
5. Language, perspective, ideology
6. Language and gender
7. Discursive interactions
8. Variety, discourse, ideology
9. Conclusion and overview

References
Index

Biography

David Lee is a faculty member at the University of Michigan, USA. His research interests include applied linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.