Taken for granted : the remarkable power of the unremarkable /
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 The Marked and the Unmarked; 2 Semiotic Asymmetry; Semiotic Weight; Tacit Assumptions and Cognitive Defaults; The Common and the Exceptional; 3 Social Variations on a Theme; Marking Traditions; Marking Conventions; Situational Variability; Marking Battles; 4 The Politics of Normality; Normality and Deviance; The Shape of Normality; Normalizing and Othering; Representativeness; Neutrality and Invisibility; Self-Evidence and Cognitive Hegemony; 5 Semiotic Subversion; Marking the Unmarked; The Politics of Foregrounding; Academic Foregrounding
- Artistic ForegroundingComic Foregrounding; Backgrounding; 6 Language and Cultural Change; Notes; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index