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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2020009172
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1108427219
Qualifying information hardcover
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International Standard Book Number 110844590X
Qualifying information paperback
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781108427210
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International Standard Book Number 9781108445900
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9781108641302
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Language of cataloging eng
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042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code pcc
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number P40
Item number .M425 2020
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.44
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McConnell-Ginet, Sally,
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Words matter :
Remainder of title meaning and power /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Sally McConnell-Ginet, Cornell University.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Cambridge, United Kingdom ;
-- New York, NY :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Cambridge University Press,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2020.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2020.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xviii, 320 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
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Content type term text
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Media type term unmediated
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Carrier type term volume
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504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Labeling: "What are you, anyway?" Shifting ethnic/racial labels for a single individual? ; What do ethnic and racial identity labels label? ; Deep historical antecedents to recent labeling ; Disputes: Latino vs Hispanic ; Creating labels to mobilize groups: the case of Asian American ; "My mom says it's not polite to call someone Black" ; Tracking people: sex/gender labels ; "One name to rule them all": strategic labeling ; Dances ; Labeling vs describing -- Marking/erasing: "Instead of saying 'normal Americans,' you can just say 'Americans'". Marking and erasing: first pass ; Us vs them marking ; How did English man lose its generic inclusiveness? ; Squeezing marked subcategory members out: where are the women ; Who is an 'unmarked' -- 'normal' -- American? ; Modifiers and marking ; "Jocks, you're not aware of it": becoming 'normal' ; People ; Trying to mark dominant groups: the politics of cisgender and its kin -- Generalizing: "All the women are white, all the Blacks are men, but some of us are brave." Implicit stereotypes and prejudices ; Colorblind? ; Black lives matter...or should! ; Quantificational generalizing: who counts? ; Generic generalizations: when do they essentialize? ; Norms -- Addressing: "All right, my man...keep your hand on the steering wheel." Vocatives ; Power and solidarity ; English address (and reference) resources ; Naming, nicknaming, and authority ; Being (in)considerate, (dis)respectful, (im)polite -- Putting down: "[They] aren't people -- they're animals." "Words will never hurt me" ; Malevolent metaphorical moves ; Escalating language games ; S-words nearer to my home ; Native American team names and mascots: "In whose honor?" ; Slurs targeting women ; Other insults and (apparent) name-calling ; Reclamation: a success story? -- Reforming/resisting: "It's like a kind of sexual racism." The Birth of sexism ; Reshaping existing linguistic resources: The Case of racism and racist ; Is it about language: Redefining rape ; Preferred gender pronouns ; Euphemism vs "identity-affirmation" or "correction" -- Authorizing: "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean...[but who] is to be master?" Dictionaries ; Division of Linguistic labor: expertise ; Dueling experts: the Pluto wars ; Courts authorizing meanings: fruit and marriage ; Inclusive language guidelines: prescribing and proscribing ; Politically correct (PC): virtue-signaling and mockery ; Empowering first-person semantic authority ; Communities are the ultimate semantic authorities -- Concluding. Does it seem crazy? Why? ; Using language recommendations to expand minds ; Naming frontiers ; Typographical distinctions: boundary-policing and dog-whistling ; "Why don't you go back where you came from?" ; Framing the free speech debate ; Linguistic change can be painful.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "Words (and meaningful silences) matter enormously in our lives. They enable us to cooperate, collaborate, and ally with one another-as well as to exclude, exploit, and subordinate one another. They script our performances as certain kinds of people in certain social locations. They are politically powerful, both as dominating weapons that help oppress and as effective tools that can resist oppression. But words in and of themselves are impotent. It is the socially structured practices and historically situated circumstances constituting our social lives that pour content into words, endow them with meaning and power. This book explores how such meaning-making works by examining a number of concrete examples of linguistic practices, many of them very current. Written not for specialists, although I hope some may find it useful, but for anyone willing to join me in examining critically their own ideas about language and its complicated connections to social conflict and change. As that invitation suggests, also writtent to help clarify the author's own understanding of these often complex and contentious issues. The author does not expect that readers will always agree with her perspectives, either before or after reading the book. But hopes that they will, rethink familiar assumptions"--
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Interpersonal communication.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Language and culture.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Linguistic change.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Sociolinguistics.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Stacks 02/11/2022 1 P40 .M425 2020 33039001498103 08/14/2023 05/24/2023 1 Book

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