--- "Kischner, Michael" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>  
> Next year, I am team-teaching a course on language
> and power in the
> United States.  In it, we have (recklessly)
> promised, among other
> things, to look at how language is a force in both
> personal and social
> relations in American society; how, through
> language, the powerful have
> defined and controlled the powerless and the
> powerless have resisted the
> powerful; how it can open doors and close them; and
> how it is at the
> heart of burning issues of propaganda and censorship
> and of relations
> among race, class, and gender.
> 
> I'd appreciate suggestions of books or articles (a)
> for me to read and
> (b) to assign the students, who will be in their
> first and second year
> of college and have no background in language study.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Michael Kischner
> Humanities Division
> North Seattle Community College
> 9600 College Way North
> Seattle, WA 98103
> 
> (206) 543-2609
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Michael,

The following text is rooted in semiology but ties-in
nicely to sociolinguistics: _Signs of Life in the
USA_, by Sonia Maasik and Jack Solomon.

Scott Lavitt

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