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By Geoffrey Hughes

ISBN-10: 1405152788

ISBN-13: 9781405152785

ISBN-10: 1405152796

ISBN-13: 9781405152792

during this conscientiously researched, thought-provoking booklet, Geoffrey Hughes examines the trajectory of political correctness and its impression on public life. Focusing at the historic, semantic, and cultural points of political correctness, it's going to intrigue an individual attracted to this ongoing debate.

  • A precise and fascinating trip throughout the trajectory of political correctness and its effect on public existence, concentrating on the historic, semantic, and cultural facets of what computer means
  • Explores the origins, development, content material and magnificence of political correctness, discussing and reading round 100 phrases and lexical formations, from Chaucer and Shakespeare, Marlowe and quick, to nursery rhymes, rap and Spike Lee motion pictures, David Mamet, J. M. Coetzee and Philip Larkin
  • Offers an in depth semantic research of how that keywords were exploited either to develop the agendas of political correctness and to refute them

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