Language and Power in the Modern World: A Reader
Product Description This text explores, in an accessible way, key areas of modern society in which language constitutes power and social relations. These are presented in five sections: multilingualism, identity and ethnicity; language and generation; language and gender; language and the media; and language and organizations. About the Author Mary Talbot is a Reader in Language and Culture at the University of Sunderland. She has extensive teaching and research experience in discourse, media and gender. Her previous books include Language and Gender (1998), 'All the World and Her Husband': Women in 20th-Century Consumer Culture (with Maggie Andrews, 2000) and Language and Power in the Modern World (with Karen Atkinson and David Atkinson, EUP, 2003). Karen Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in Language Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland. David Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Limerick.