Language and Power

by Cheris Kramarae (Editor), Muriel Schulz (Editor), William M. O'Barr (Editor)

The contributors to Language and Power approach the subject from different academic and cultural perspectives. Some focus on the link between whole languages and power structures; others consider styles and varieties of language in conjunction with the distribution of power. A single over-riding theme runs through these fascinating essays: that of language serving as a major means of expressing, manipulating, and sometimes even transforming power relations in every society. ...wide ranging in context and approach.' -- "Lore and Language, Vol 4 No 1

Hardcover

First published August 1, 1984

About the author

Cheris Kramarae is the co-editor of the new Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women's Issues and Knowledge, and a past professor of communications and of women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and is a visiting professor at the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon.

She is the author of Women and Men Speaking; editor of Technology and Women's Voices; and co-editor of Feminism Challenges in the Information Age; Women,Information Technology and Scholarship; The Information Explosion; Feminism Challenges in the Information Age; The Revolution in Words: Righting Women 18680-1871; Radical Press of the 1850's; A Feminist Dictionary; For Alma Mater: Feminist Scholarship in Theory and Practice; Language and Power; Language, Gender and Society; and The Voices and Words of Women and Men, as well as dozens of chapters and articles on language, education, radical feminism, and technology.