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Words Matter : Meaning and Power by Sally McConnell-Ginet is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"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 histo
Who reads Words Matter : Meaning and Power?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sally McConnell-Ginet
- Publisher
- University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations; Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781108427210
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Language Learning, Linguistics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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