Competing Discourses: Perspective and Ideology in LanguageThe relationship between language, perspective and ideology is an issue that has long aroused the interest of a wide audience: linguists, literary theorists, philosophers, anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists, communication theorists. This book approaches the question through recent work in linguistics and sociolinguistics. It begins by considering those characteristics of language that make it an ideal instrument for the mediation of perspective, with a particular focus on the processes of categorization and selection. Of particular interest is the problematic nature of the fit between language and reality. |
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Grammar categories and worldview | 24 |
Golding and Faulkner | 49 |
Metaphor | 65 |
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