"This timely volume constitutes the first book-length account of implicit as well as explicit language attitudes. It details the findings of a large-scale study, incorporating cutting-edge implicit and self-report instruments adapted from social psychology, investigating the eva…
Synthesizing the recent scientific works of linguists and anthropologists with the "doctrine of correctness," the author examines the questions of correctness, truth, social dialects, propaganda, official obfuscation and the use of language by those in power to manipulate those …
Synthesizing the recent scientific works of linguists and anthropologists with the "doctrine of correctness," the author examines the questions of correctness, truth, social dialects, propaganda, official obfuscation and the use of language by those in power to manipulate those …