Language as a tool of animal oppression : The role of grammar in representing farm animals

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angličtina
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Language as a tool of animal oppression : The role of grammar in representing farm animals
Original language description
Language as a form of social practice plays a significant role in the sustainment and reinforcement of power relations, dominance and inequality between different groups of people (Fairclough 2001, 2003). Ecolinguistic approaches to the study of language (Stibbe 2001, 2012) stress that language practice also reflects and at the same time sustains the relationship of humans towards other animal species and contributes to the cruel and destructive behavior we display towards them. The linguistic choices we make when speaking about animals help construe their social identity as inferior entities or even objects, which is pivotal in manufacturing human consent to the oppression and cruel treatment of animals (Stibbe 2001, 2012). While these mechanisms might most easily be observed on lexical level, this paper examines how farm animals and their interactions with humans are more subtly represented on the level of grammar.
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Publication year
2016
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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