The Judas Rose

The Judas Rose

Native Tongue II

by Suzette Haden Elgin, Rebecca Romney, Amy Landon

Part of The Women's Press science fiction

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Laadan --battle cry of revolution or a tool to unite human and alien? IN LANGUAGE LIES POWER! And on a future Earth where genetically bred linguists hold the key to the planet's economic survival because only they can serve as translators between human and alien traders, language has, indeed, become the way to power. but what this future earth's male-dominated society does not yet realize is that ordinary women as well as linguists can wield this weapon of the mind.

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    How does the novel portray the relationship between language, communication, and power, and do you see parallels to how language is used to exert control in our own society today?

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    In what ways does the creation and spread of the women's language, Láadan, act as both a tool of rebellion and a sanctuary for those who use it?

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    If you had the ability to invent a single word or grammatical rule to better express an emotion or concept currently missing from English, what would it be?

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