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Just Words?

2008 History
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Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 389/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Just Words? by : Bernadette M. Brennan

Download or read book Just Words? written by Bernadette M. Brennan. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over the past decade Australians have witnessed a significant shift to more insular and conservative economic, ethical and cultural norms. The problems of valuing and achieving justice seem more acute than ever, yet the solutions to those problems are not obvious nor are those in power taking the lead." "In this powerful collection, Australian writers including Gail Jones, Eva Sallis and Frank Brennan explore the relationship between writing and justice, a relationship utterly dependent on informed, ethical readers. These essays - from poets, essayists, academics, playwrights, critics and novelists - demonstrate how it is possible for writing to articulate concerns of justice, enlighten the broader community and move citizens to action."--BOOK JACKET.

Just Words

2011-06-28 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2011-06-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 803/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Just Words by : Alan Ackerman

Download or read book Just Words written by Alan Ackerman. This book was released on 2011-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an appearance on "The Dick Cavett Show" in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.'" Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment was not a legitimate conversation on public issues but an attack on her reputation. This intriguing book offers a many-faceted examination of Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.

Just Words

2011-06-14 Poetry
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Release : 2011-06-14
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 003/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Just Words by : Trevor J. Walker

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Just Words

2019-05-10 Law
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Release : 2019-05-10
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 53X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Just Words by : John M. Conley

Download or read book Just Words written by John M. Conley. This book was released on 2019-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it “just words” when a lawyer cross-examines a rape victim in the hopes of getting her to admit an interest in her attacker? Is it “just words” when the Supreme Court hands down a decision or when business people draw up a contract? In tackling the question of how an abstract entity exerts concrete power, Just Words focuses on what has become the central issue in law and language research: what language reveals about the nature of legal power. John M. Conley, William M. O'Barr, and Robin Conley Riner show how the microdynamics of the legal process and the largest questions of justice can be fruitfully explored through the field of linguistics. Each chapter covers a language-based approach to a different area of the law, from the cross-examinations of victims and witnesses to the inequities of divorce mediation. Combining analysis of common legal events with a broad range of scholarship on language and law, Just Words seeks the reality of power in the everyday practice and application of the law. As the only study of its type, the book is the definitive treatment of the topic and will be welcomed by students and specialists alike. This third edition brings this essential text up to date with new chapters on nonverbal, or “multimodal,” communication in legal settings and law, language, and race.

Just Words

2010-11 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2010-11
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Just Words by : Robert W. Greene

Download or read book Just Words written by Robert W. Greene. This book was released on 2010-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the words that a novelist uses adequate to his or her elusive subject&—the human condition? Are they pertinent, accurate, invariably fair, unflinchingly honest? Or do the novelist's words execute essentially formal maneuvers, engaging our interest through their patterns rather than their reach? And what about a possible third, synthesizing option? Robert W. Greene discovers that the two apparently divergent intentions in question (metalinguistic vs. moralistic) often paradoxically coexist in French fiction. Also, no doubt because it is more consistently self-conscious than that of any previous era, the fiction of twentieth-century France seems to illustrate this convergence with special brillance. From L'lmmoralist (1902) to L'Usage de la parole (1980) Greene explores combinations and permutations of moralistic analysis and metalinguistic commentary in a particular sequence of prose narrative. Along the way, he observes Gide, Proust, Malraux, Camus, Duras, and Sarraute, each in his or her own fashion, moving ceaselessly back and forth between soundings of the heart and diagnoses of the tongue.

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