This is the final post in my four-part blog series on Four Operations of Language. In this post I’ll be focusing on Coates and Wade’s fourth operation of language: blaming and pathologizing victims.
Read moreConcealing Victims' Resistance
Welcome to the third post in my four-part series on Four Operations of Language. In this post I will be focusing on concealing victims’ resistance.
Read moreObscuring Perpetrator Responsibility
In continuation of my series on the Four Operations of Language, this post focuses on the second operation: Obscuring and Mitigating Perpetrator Responsibility.
Read moreUsing Words to Conceal Violence
This is the first post in my 4-part series on Coates and Wade's Four Operations of Language. In this post I focus on how we use language to conceal or reveal violence.
Read moreThe Power of Words & Social Responses
We’ve likely all heard counter-arguments and annoyed protest from those who wish to believe that words are just words – often to excuse themselves for saying things with harmful implications. But words aren’t just words. Language provides the building blocks for meaning, and meaning informs action.
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