Examining the relationship between language and literacy and the societal experiences that help shape it, this political and polemical book builds on the author's previous work in reader-response criticism and challenges the now dominant assumption that language is an individual transaction independent of any social context. Moving through a series of interrelated essays, David Bleich explores topics including the social psychology of men, which he maintains exerts undue influence on everyone's education; conceptions of knowledge now offered by feminist epistemologists; social conceptions of language and knowledge found in the work of G.H. Mead, L.S. Vygotsky, Ludwik Fleck, and Mikhail Bakhtin; the influence of gender on language use; the views of current thinkers on the social character of the classroom and academic communities; and the process of individual language development.

The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations

Politics & Social Sciences

Bleich, David

Sociology

Oxford University Press

The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University

David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair gender practices. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations, and becomes available for study by all speakers, who may regulate it, change it, and make it flexible like other material things.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

David Bleich sees the human body, its affective life, social life, and political functions as belonging to the study of language. In The Materiality of Language, Bleich addresses the need to end centuries of limiting access to language and its many contexts of use. To recognize language as material and treat it as such, argues Bleich, is to remove restrictions to language access due to historic patterns of academic censorship and unfair gender practices. Language is understood as a key path in the formation of all social and political relations, and becomes available for study by all speakers, who may regulate it, change it, and make it flexible like other material things.

Examining the relationship between language and literacy and the societal experiences that help shape it, this political and polemical book builds on the author's previous work in reader-response criticism and challenges the now dominant assumption that language is an individual transaction independent of any social context.  Moving through a series of interrelated essays, David Bleich explores topics including the social psychology of men, which he maintains exerts undue influence on everyone's education; conceptions of knowledge now offered by feminist epistemologists; social conceptions of language and knowledge found in the work of G.H. Mead, L.S. Vygotsky, Ludwik Fleck, and Mikhail Bakhtin; the influence of gender on language use; the views of current thinkers on the social character of the classroom and academic communities; and the process of individual language development.

Double Perspective: Language, Literacy and Social Relations

Natl. Council of Teachers of English

Readings and Feelings: An Introduction to Subjective Criticism

Natl Council of Teachers

Utopia: The psychology of a cultural fantasy (Studies in speculative fiction)

UMI Research Press

Know and Tell is a sophisticated, richly knowledgeable, and far-reaching analysis of what it means to teach and learn language, what it means to engage with our subject as thinkers, doers, and social activists in the most profound sense of the word. The book is firmly centered in the English classroom-on teacher practices, student responses, and the subject of English as it unfolds in everyday occurrences-offering a clear vision of what teaching and learning language use is, can, might, and should be. David Bleich asks hard questions-of himself, his students, his subject, and his colleagues. He reconnects our teaching practices with social needs, with what really matters in our society-namely how we can create selves that stand a chance of surviving school and beyond. His book addresses the teaching of writing from the standpoint of motivation, interest, and purpose of those in classrooms that depend on, need, and study writing. At the same time it shows that the details of language use in classrooms appear in language use in society. Know and Tell enlarges the subject matter of "writing" from "general writing skills instruction" to language use as a feature of everyday life and as the main path for the announcement of knowledge. Bleich emphasizes that writing exists in living contexts and that even the most formal uses of writing need to be understood as aspects of living social scenes, interests, and groups of people. And in doing so, he also shows how postsecondary writing pedagogy can contribute to wider changes in academic teaching and can promote new levels of interdisciplinary cooperation.

Know and Tell: A Writing Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership (Crosscurrents)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Heinemann

This series, an outstanding example of the traditional approach to the halakhah, deals with the application of Jewish law to contemporary social, political, technological and religious problems. Chapters in these volumes are devoted to questions of personal and social status, the State of Israel, the Sabbath and Holy Days, medical halakhah, education and business law. Major issues such as assisted procreation, abortion, fetal tissue research, the agunah problem, intermarriage, conversion, the role of the Bet Din, capital punishment, preemptive warfare and many, many more are analyzed in detail. Many of these topics have been matters of heated controversy within the Jewish community. The author, a distinguished talmudic scholar and halakhist, has culled relevant material from the vast responsa literature. He examines each question by carefully delineating the issues, showing the various positions taken by rabbinic scholars, clarifying areas of divergence and analyzing the reasons for disagreement. This work is an invaluable source book for all students of traditional Jewish law and practice. This best-selling series has been universally acclaimed as a classic of its genre. A Jerusalem Post reviewer observed that it is scholarly, lucid and good-tempered.....Direct, comprehensive, realistic.....enjoy this treasury of halakhic knowledge.

Contemporary Halakhic Problems (Library of Jewish Law and Ethics)

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

Ktav Pub & Distributors Inc

A collection of less technical lectures and papers presented by halackic scholar and ethicist Bleich to a wide range of audiences over the past few decades. From a Jewish perspective, they engage such issues as assisted procreation, surrogate motherhood, pregnancy reduction, sperm banking, disclosure of information, care of the terminally ill, AIDS, HIV screening, and conjoined twins. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Bioethical Dilemmas

Bleich, J. David

Originally published in 1981. The meaning and objectives of literature, argues David Bleich, are created by the reader, who depends on community consensus to validate his or her judgements. Bleich proposes that the study of English be consciously reoriented from a knowledge-finding to a knowledge-making enterprise. This involves a new explanation of language acquisition in childhood, a psychologically disciplined concept of linguistic and literary response, and a recognition of the intellectual authority of pedagogical communities to originate and establish knowledge. Amplifying his theoretical model with subjective responses drawn from his own classroom experience, Bleich suggests ways in which the study of language and literature can become more fully integrated with each person's responsibility for what he or she knows.

Subjective Criticism

Johns Hopkins University Press

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The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations

The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University

The Materiality of Language: Gender, Politics, and the University

Double Perspective: Language, Literacy and Social Relations

Readings and Feelings: An Introduction to Subjective Criticism

Utopia: The psychology of a cultural fantasy (Studies in speculative fiction)

Know and Tell: A Writing Pedagogy of Disclosure, Genre, and Membership (Crosscurrents)

Contemporary Halakhic Problems (Library of Jewish Law and Ethics)

Bioethical Dilemmas

Subjective Criticism