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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... whole life . Her sentence is not a call to quietism or removal from the world . Once we begin to see what happens when people successfully claim power over the lives of others , when an empire of force is created in language and in life ...
... whole a structure that is more spiral than linear in nature. We come back again and again, from different starting points, to the same central questions, in the process transforming our sense of what they mean. CHAPTER ONE CD Speech in ...
... whole mind. Much of what we say and hear is of course not like this—not shaped by inner and outer silences—but is simply a stitching together of locu- tions in predictable and uninteresting ways, locutions that are not in any ...
... whole thing. If this pattern of the verse were continued without interruption, it would connect every part of the poem and its imagined world in a seamless woven tapestry of language from begin- ning to end. But each Canto begins a new ...
... whole lives. This is in the end a 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 ...
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