I don’t know if the title makes sense but I’ll try to be more specific. I’d like to learn about how language affects society, like how it might enforce stereotypes (or hate, discrimination, etc.). Like the Importance of Words and Language, I guess?
Even if you think of books which you’re not quite sure if they fit my prompt, feel free to tell me about them anyway!
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George Lakoff writes a lot about this. In particular *Moral Politics*, *Whose Freedom*, and *The Political Mind*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Politics
Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy, by April Baker-Bell
Babel
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn. You get to see what happens as letters are banned in written and spoken language, one by one.
I recently read Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri, which is a series of essays about identity and being multi-lingual. It was a really thoughtful exploration of the way the language we converse in shapes how we can represent ourselves culturally, socially and personally. It’s not quite what you described but it’s related!
Embassytown, Mieville