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The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University
David Bleich
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Paperback. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations Num Pages: 574 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; JNMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 227 x 36. Weight in Grams: 792.
David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair gender practices. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations, and becomes available for study by all speakers, who may ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
574
Condition
New
Number of Pages
548
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253007728
SKU
V9780253007728
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About David Bleich
David Bleich is Professor of English at the University of Rochester and author of Know and Tell: A Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership and The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations, among other books.
Reviews for The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University
The scope and depth of Bleich's work in The Materiality of Language are impressive. This book offers intriguing views of historical developments in language philosophies, the ways in which rigid views of language have supported institutional hegemony and androcentrism, and the positive implications of acknowledging language's materiality. The systematic links he draws among language, gender, institutions, and politics offer generative ... Read more