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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... matter entirely, and a central subject of this book. Can we be confident that we perceive this difference accurately, as readers and hearers, when we are faced with the expressions that make up our world of speech and language? Can we ...
... matter: the hope of the poem to create an ordered and coherent poetic universe, mirroring God's creation and running in imagination from the beginning of time to the day of judgment, is in a sense enacted or performed in the very ...
... matter of moral and spiritual quality. Everyone has sinned, of course; the question is what attitude one has towards the dam- age one has done to others and oneself, what effort one makes to correct and improve, what kind and degree of ...
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