John Earl Joseph. Eloquence and Power: The Rise of Language Standards and Standard Languages . London: Frances Pinter (Publishers). 1987. Pp. xii + 199. £28.50.

Leave Your Language Alone

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.

Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. (Trans A. Sheridan).

This writer who has warned us of the “ideological” function of both the oeuvre and the author as unquestioned forms of discursive organization has gone quite far in constituting for both these “fictitious unities” the name (with all the problems of such a designation) Michel Foucault. One text under review, La Volonté de Savoir, is the methodological introduction of a projected five-volume history of sexuality. It will apparently circle back over that material which seems to have a special fascination for Foucault: the gradual emergence of medicine as an institution, the birth of political economy, demography and linguistics as “human sciences,” the invention of incarceration and confinement for the control of the “other” in society (the mad, the libertine, the criminal) and that special violence that lurks beneath the power to control discourse.

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

Aims to challenge some of man's cherished standards of behavior, with devastating wit and satire.

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions

1 Popular ideas about language 2 Language and identity 3 The structure of language 4 The medium of language: speaking and listening 5 The medium of language: reading and writing 6 The medium of language: signing and seeing 7 Child language acquisition 8 Language, brain and handicap 9 The languages of the world 10 Language in the world 11 Language and communication Appendices 1 Glossary 2 Special symbols and abbreviations used in The Encyclopedia of Language 3 Table of the world's languages 4 Further reading 5 References 6 Index of langauges, families, dialects and scripts 7 Index of authors and personalities 8 Index of topics

John Earl Joseph. Eloquence and Power: The Rise of Language Standards and Standard Languages . London: Frances Pinter (Publishers). 1987. Pp. xii + 199. £28.50.

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Leave Your Language Alone

References

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.

Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. (Trans A. Sheridan).

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions

The Cambridge encyclopedia of language