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propaganda/language and power (Part 1)

Hanna Nieuwdorp/RSG Slingerbos-Levant


http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

political advertising for the American elections 1952-2008

(tags: propaganda, advertising, rhetorics, media)

Part I Example Programme Plan for Language, Power and Gender

1. Compare two similar chapters from Deborah Tannen You Just Don't Understand and Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus (Linguist versus popular self-help book).

2. Man made Language by Dale Spender:male superiority is not to be confused with male power: only one is a myth which can be exposed and eradicated by knowledge, by a change in

consciousness. While they are different, however, they are also inextricably linked, for male superiority has served as a justification for male power.

3. The Women's Room by Marilyn French and

A Room of one's Own by Virginia Woolf

4. Sarah Palin (Saturday Night Live on Youtube) vs Obama. Compare one of their speeches.

Assignment: Find two texts and show how their choice of words (diction) identifies the gender, social status and power. Give examples from both texts.

Andrea Landau and Carla van Wissen

Language and Power

Part 1 -Language & Power

Passage to India
Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore
Rabbit Proof Fence
Martin Luther King
Things Fall Apart - Achebe
Swift essays
Orwell essays
David Crystal
Six O'Clock News - Tom Lennard
Mr Oxford Don - Agard
Queen Elizabeth I speech
Queen Beatrix?
Bible?
Advertising
Newspapers - rhetoric and propaganda
Sujata Bhatt - Mother Tongue
Bill Bryson - The history of the English Language

Wendy, Kate, Mirjam

Language in cultural context

Language & power or language and taboo:

Ground zero speech Geert Wilders
General Patton - breaking taboo
Clinton: Speech Monica - regaining power
Obama inauguration
Nelson Mandela inauguration speech
Malcom X
South Park : taboo
Sarah Palin - Saturday Night Live - Language & power
Julius Caesar

Sexuality & gender

Brand definitions of gender
Historical figures
Monique Wittig
Fingersmith & tipping the velvet
Little Red Riding Hood - sexuality

Translations Brian Friel

Linguistim imperialism
Pigmalion
Fairy tales - political correctness
The Islands Athol Fugard
Bob Marley (language & communities)
Alan Patton - The Waste Land (language & communities)
Literary criticism - Achebe criticism Heart of Darkness