Reviews for Understanding Utterances

The average rating for Understanding Utterances based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-05-19 00:00:00 Edward Quiroga This book covers a wide variety of ways in which language use can be related to power in society. Some issues covered are gender, race, class, and region. Of particular interest is the discussion on standard English and how non-standard versions of English are stigmatized.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-02-14 00:00:00 Thomas Yacob This was quite informative and refreshing. I especially appreciated the further reading materials cited as the book doesn't delve deeper into each topic. It covers topics from the definition of language to its relation to ideology, politics, its use in the media, how it's used to vis-à-vis gender, age, social class...etc