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Impersonal passion : language as affect / Denise Riley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riley, Denise, 1948-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and emotions.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of essays on the everyday workings of language and how language shapes our social and political existence.
- Contents:
- Malediction
- "What I want back is what I was" : consolation's retrospect
- The right to be lonely
- Some why's and why mes
- Linguistic inhibition as a cause of pregnancy
- "Lying" when you aren't
- All mouth and no trousers : linguistic embarrassments
- "But then I wouldn't be here"
- Your name which isn't yours.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-142) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822386780
- 082238678X
- OCLC:
- 220951058
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