Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 2009 M02 9 - 256 páginas Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination. |
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... understanding a situation and its meaning; the other is a writer's knowledge—knowing how to use language to create meaning of an appropriate and valuable kind. 2 Compare what Stuart Hood says in his memoir of 9780691138374_2INT.
... who does not understand it and know how not to respect it. This is in fact where it really lives, in the mind; without that life it would have no force at all. This dimension of empire can be deliberately created by a 5 INTRODUCTION.
... created by a master ma- nipulator , like Joseph Goebbels , or it can be something that looks quite different , simply the culture working itself out in our imaginations and our hearts . Each of us grows up surrounded by languages ...
... created in language and in life , we should of course try to find ways to resist it in our con- duct : in our voting , our political and social action , our contributions of money and time and energy . But — and this is crucial to the ...
... creating the Inferno, to define and maintain the moral coherence of the universe as he has imagined it into existence. Nonetheless—indeed partly by virtue of these commitments both to the temporal empire and the eternal rule of the ...
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