Riley Impersonal Passion

Language as Affect
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8678-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 152 Seiten

A collection of essays on the everyday workings of language and how language shapes our social and political existence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riley, Denise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

1. Malediction 9

2. "What I Want Back Is What I Was": Consolation's Retrospect 29

3. The Right to be Lonely 49

4. Why WHYs and why mes 59

5. Linguistic Inhibition as a Cause of Pregnancy 71

6. "Lying" When You Aren't 85

7. All Mouth and No Trousers: Linguistic Embarrassments 97

8. "But Then I Wouldn't Be Here" 105

9. Your Name Which Isn't Yours 115

Notes 129

Über Autor(innen)

Denise Riley is a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of East Anglia. Her books include The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony; “Am I That Name?” Feminism and the Category of “Women” in History; and War in the Nursery: Theories of the Child and Mother, as well as many collections of poetry.