The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader Contributor(s): Burke, Lucy (Editor), Crowley, Tony (Editor), Girvin, Alan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415186811 ISBN-13: 9780415186810 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2000 Annotation: This reader features the most innovative and influential writings that have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity in the twentieth century. The themed sections include: Language in History; Language and Subjectivity; Language and Sexuality; Language and Creativity; Language and Colonialism; Language, Class and Education. Essays by: Chinua Achebe, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Basil Bernstein, Leonard Bloomfield, Franz Boas, Pierre Bourdieu, Edward K. Braithwaite, Judith Butler, Deborah Cameron, Helene Cixous, Brian Cox, Benedetto Croce, David Dabydeen, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Antonio Gramsci, Luce Irigaray, Roman Jacobson, Braj B. Kachru, Julia Kristeva, William Labov, Jacques Lacan, H. L. Mencken, Ngugi wa Thiong'o and many more... |
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BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
Dewey: 400 |
LCCN: 99047377 |
Series: Politics of Language |
Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.85" W x 9.69" (1.89 lbs) 528 pages |
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Publisher Description: This is a core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings to have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity. |