The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader by Lucy Burke
This is a core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings to have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity.
The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader
The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader
Summary
A core introduction to the most innovative and influential writings which have shaped and defined the relations between language, culture and cultural identity.
The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader Summary
About Lucy Burke
Both Tony Crowley and Lucy Burke are in the English Department at the University of Manchester. Tony is Professor of English and was departmental head for last year. He is co-editor for our Politics of Language series. Alan Girvin has recently moved to the University of Strathclyde. Lucy and Alan are both lecturers in their respective English departments.
Table of Contents
Part 1: structure and agency in language introduction, Ferdinand de Saussure, Benedetto Croce, V.N. Voloshinox; language in history - introduction, Ferdinand de Saussure, Leo Spitzer, Raymond Williams, Deborah Cameron, Muriel Schultz; language and subjectivity - introduction, Ferdinand de Saussure, Benjamin Lee Whorf, L.S. Vygotsky, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan; language and gende - introduction, Dale Spender, Robin Lakoff, Helene Cixous, Denise Riley, Judith Butler; language and sexuality, Luce Irigaray, Edmund White, Hortense J. Spillers, Deborah Cameron. Part 2: unity and diversity in language, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jan Mukarovsky, Paul L. Garvin; language communities, Leonard Bloomfield, Mikhail Bakhtin, Antonio Gramsci; language and nation, Elie Kedourie, Karl Vossler, Benedict Anderson; Englishes - introduction, H.L. Mencken, Tom Paulin, David Dabydeen, Edward Kamau Braithwaite, Braj B. Kachru; language and creativity - introduction, Roman Jakobson, Paul Ricoeur, Julia Kristeva, Roland Barthes, G.I. Vinokur. Part 3: languages, cultures, communities languages/cultures, Franz Boas, Bronislaw Malinowski, Edward Sapir, Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes; language and colonialism - introduction, Frantz Fanon, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiongo, David Lloyd; language, class and education, Basil Bernstein, William Labov, Pierre Bourdieu, Brian Cox.
Additional information
GOR002770006
9780415186810
0415186811
The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader by Lucy Burke
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2000-04-20
528
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