The role of language in constructing consciousness in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

Description

Relationship between thought and language -- Whorf's hypothesis of linguistic determinism -- Linguistic relativism -- Sociopolitics, oppression, and language.

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1. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1128
2. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2128&context=etd-project

Tags

Margaret Atwood

Thought and thinking

Psycholinguistics

Sociolinguistics

Literature in English, North America

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:csusb.edu/oai:scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu:etd-project-2128
Date	01 January 1992
Creators	DiBenedetto, Tamra Elizabeth
Publisher	CSUSB ScholarWorks
Source Sets	California State University San Bernardino
Detected Language	English
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Source	Theses Digitization Project