30.313, Books: Keywords for Today: The Keywords Project, MacCabe, Yanacek (eds.)

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Subject: 30.313, Books: Keywords for Today: The Keywords Project, MacCabe, Yanacek (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:30:41
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Keywords for Today: The Keywords Project, MacCabe, Yanacek (eds.)

 


Title: Keywords for Today 
Subtitle: A 21st Century Vocabulary 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/keywords-for-today-9780190636579 


Editor: The Keywords Project
Editor: Colin MacCabe
Editor: Holly Yanacek

Paperback: ISBN:  9780190636579 Pages: 416 Price: U.S. $ 21.95


Abstract:

Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to
better understand our contemporary world. From nature to cultural
appropriation and from market to terror, the most important words in political
and cultural debate have complicated and complex histories. This book sketches
these histories in ways that illuminate the political bent and values of our
current society. Written by The Keywords Project, an independent group of
scholars who have spent more than a decade on this work, Keywords for Today
updates and extends Raymond Williams's classic work, Keywords: A Vocabulary of
Culture and Society. It updates some 40 of Williams's original entries and
adds 86 new entries, ranging from access to youth. The book is both a history
of English, documenting important semantic change in the language, and a
handbook of current political and ideological debate. Whether it is
demonstrating the only recently-acquired religious meaning of fundamentalism
or the complicated linguistic history of queer, Keywords for Today will
intrigue and enlighten.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=132477




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