Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of ForcePrinceton University Press, 2009 M02 9 - 256 pages Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. Advertising reduces us to consumers, and clichés destroy the life of the imagination. |
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... phrase " freedom of speech " include all acts of verbal expression ? That construction seems to almost everyone plainly impossible , since there are well - established crimes that can be committed by words alone , such as conspiracy ...
... phrase “living speech” is to be defined and given meaning. It cannot I think be done by a stipulative or purely conceptional definition—by the elabora- tion or substitution of terms—but only by the experience of particular examples and ...
... phrases and syllables could not be distinguished from each other or from the noise that surrounds them; and silence is especially necessary to significant speech—speech that makes a real claim upon one's attention and promises to reward ...
... phrases were simply stored in an antechamber to the mind, ready for immediate use upon demand. Lawyers are all too familiar with this sort of speaking and writing, of which a certain kind of brief can be taken as an example: one that ...
... phrases and formulas, none of which is truly meant. These habits of mind and expression can of course be found outside the law as well, wherever one can find clichés and received ideas and for- mulas and slogans presented as though they ...
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