Awards

• Winner of Winner, 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Book Award.

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Author:   David Bleich
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.794kg
ISBN:  

9780253007728

ISBN 10:   0253007720
Pages:   548
Publication Date:   28 June 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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

<p> A powerful, first-rate book on a crucial topic. --Dale Bauer, University of Illinois--Dale Bauer, University of Illinois

Author Information

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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