The words between the spaces : buildings and language / Thomas A. Markus and Deborah Cameron
Imprint
London : Routledge, 2002
Descript
xii, 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Why language matters: 'Language' and 'linguistics' ; 'Discourse' and 'discourse analysis' -- Building and their texts: a brief history: Treatises ; Writing ; Loss of innocence, and form as the healer ; Function and technology foregrounded ; Manifesto replaces the weighty tome ; Text prescriptions ; Design by law -- Classification: Ordering of knowledge ; Intentions nd achievement in the workplace ; Boundaries and clusters ; Shape space -- Power: Textual contradictions ; Washbasins in the sun -- Value: Evaluation discourse ; Voices of authority ; Promotional discourse ; Aesthetic value and social value -- Heritage: Time, space and the past ; Creating identities ; Commodification; Depoliticizing the past ; Grim episodes -- Images