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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... effect . That would be the central critical task.5 In this book I shall not proceed with Homer but shall turn instead with such questions in. 4 Compare what the Dalai Lama has said about peace : “ Although attempting to bring about world ...
... effect on the world, but the real value of the speech as such, for the speaker and his or her audience: the value of speech that invites and de- serves and rewards real attention, that makes possible the engagement of one mind with ...
... effects, and we may not even un- derstand it at all. This is an instance of the general truth that in every act of expression the speaker must choose one language or another, and whatever language he chooses to speak will silence other ...
... effect of these lines would be ruined if Dante ren- dered himself more particular , like a character in a novel , say — telling us about his prior history and education , his social location , his qualities of mind and aspiration , the ...
... effect upon the fact that it does not take place in outer silence ei- ther, for it could not bear the attention that such silence would invite. And it is not neutral in its effects—not mere noise or chatter—but trivializing ...
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