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The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University

The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University


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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 regulate it, change it, and make it flexible like other material things.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Contested Subject Part One: The Materiality of Language Chapter 1: Premises and Backgrounds Chapter 2: Received Standards in the Study of Language Chapter 3: Materiality and Genre Chapter 4: The Unity of Language and Thought Chapter 5: Materiality and the Contemporary Study of Language Chapter 6: Recognizing Politics in the Study of Language Part Two: Language in the University Chapter 7: Frustrations of Academic Language Chapter 8: The Protected Institution Chapter 9: The Sacred Language Chapter 10: Language Uses in Science, the Heir of Latin Chapter 11: Language and Human Survival Chapter 12: The Materiality of Literature and the Contested Subject Works Cited and Consulted Index

About the Author :
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.

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"Shows how language politics and gender politics go together and how suppression of language is related to suppression of people... The Materiality of Language is a critique (historical and intellectual) of male-dominated modes of language use, their roots in the founding and administering of the university, their effects on what can and can't be studied, and their spill over into popular culture... The argument is by accretion, by finding patterns. That is, Bleich provides analytic resources that are portable. This critique roams broadly over science, social science, [and the] humanities, and both the critique and the alternative are powerfully rendered." Deborah Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison "A potentially foundational text in an emergent field [of] language studies, whose work is to break up the monopoly Linguistics and Philosophy have had on the study of language... [An] alternative history of western linguistic thought... [featuring] thinkers who developed "material" or socially-driven philosophies of language... One of the book's distinctive features is the use of gender as a key normative analytical lens throughout. It would be difficult to exaggerate how rare this is among language thinkers, and how productive it is for the arguments here." Mary Louise Pratt, New York University "A powerful, first-rate book on a crucial topic." Dale Bauer, University of Illinois


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253007728
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 548
  • Sub Title: Gender, Politics, and the University
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0253007720
  • Publisher Date: 28 Jun 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 794 gr


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