Author: Lakoff, Robin Tolmach
Title: The Language War
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2000). orig.boards. 23x15cm, x, 322 pp. Minor rubbing. Slight binding corner bump. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Language: The Power We Love to Hate; The Neutrality of the Status Quo; "Political Correctness" & Hate Speech: The Word as Sword; Mad, Bad & Had: The Anita Hill / Clarence Thomas Narrative(s); Hillary Rodham Clinton: What the Sphinx Thinks; Who Framed "O.J."?; Ebonics. It's Chronic;The Story of Ugh.

Keywords: American Sociolinguistics, United States, Mass Media, Language, Languages, Social, Linguistic, Sociology, Communication