Blogger and I were having issues last night. I'm going to try again to post this.
The first few pages of this chapter had me sitting mouth sort of agape and eyes unfocused. For a while, anyway.
I was thinking, "Huh? What do all these stories have to do with anything?"
In fact, even as the chapter progressed, the information was given to us only in tidbits, placed in various places throughout the text. I may not have even noticed them except for the orange highlight of the wise, patient person who had this book before me.
While some of the points made throughout the chapter about how language influences things and can be used to take control of a situation- by Lakoff using the Hill/Thomas example- were good, I felt like they were buried. Not as buried as the points in Ramage’s book, but scattered. There was one point, I forget what page, where Lakoff listed the specific dates certain broadcasts had aired. I thought that additions like that were unnecessary and detracted from the points.
This chapter was very race and gender-focused. Those commentaries were interesting in and of themselves, and when put with the connection of language being used to exemplify gender issues, it kind of ties everything together. Kinda’… sorta’. Maybe?
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