224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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In Language in History , Tony Crowley provides the analytical tools for answering such questions. Using a radical re-reading of Saussure and Bahktin, he demonstrates, in four case studies, the ways in which language has been used to construct social and cultural identity in Britain and Ireland. For example, he examines the ways in which language was employed to construct a bourgeois public sphere... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 For and against Saussure; Chapter 2 For and against Bakhtin; Chapter 3 Wars of words; Chapter 4 Forging the nation; Chapter 5 Science and silence; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Notes Select bibliography; INDEX;
Biography
Tony Crowley is Professor of English at the University of Manchester. His publications include Proper English, also published by Routledge, and The Politics of Discourse.
