Taken-for-granted language reproduces value hierarchies and centric thinking

Evidence

As C. A. Bowers teaches, words have a history; the language we use repro duces important patterns of belief and behavior—moral codes that become deeply embedded in our day-to-day interactions. Thus, discourses developed and taken for granted over generations reinforce value hierarchies and patterns of centric thinking, which shape the industrial/consumer culture now sweeping the planet. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 124

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the discourse/reproduction mechanism - words-with-history - that is the analytic tool students will apply.
• XREF: Names Bowers directly; the reader is reading Bowers’ theory alongside and this shows exactly how his discourse critique gets operationalized in classrooms. — connects to: Human marginalization and ecological exploitation share one root of value-hierarchized thought — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 126; The ecological crisis is fundamentally a crisis in learned patterns of thought — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 227; Taken-for-granted belief patterns are politically invented human products, not natural or inevitable — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 587 (+6 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Value hierarchies become second-nature through historically embedded discourse #corroborates (0.95) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1099
• Language preserves fossilized worldviews within its living metaphors #exemplifies (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599
• Abstract language describes ingroup virtues and outgroup vices as stable traits #exemplifies (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1288
• The seclusion-or-universality dichotomy legitimizes linguistic domination #expands (0.80) — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 533
• Language enables meanings rather than passively carrying them #expands (0.75)
• Language intertwines descriptive and normative claims about the world #corroborates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 956