Languages of Labour

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Synopsis
This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of language in relation to the subject of history. The British and American contributors put forward the idea that language is a broadly based means of communication with contested and consensual meanings, and that such meanings must be revealed and evaluated by precise historical contextualisation of language and proper attention to established rules of historical method. The essays contend that the connections between the linguistic and the social must be rethought. The book aims to move beyond the unproductive fragmentation and relativism, the narrow textual range and the literal and anti-realist readings of the postmodern ’linguistic turn’ to offer a rigorous approach to the study of language and the subject of history.
Copyright:
1997

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
232 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351923200
Related ISBNs:
9781859284285, 9781315250823
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
John Belchem, Neville Kirk and the contributors
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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