Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay collection The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction has a lot of interesting material on language use and politics. Well, it has interesting material on all sorts of things, but this is a blog about language, so I’m being selective.
The book was first published in 1979, edited and introduced by Susan Wood; my paperback copy, pictured, is the revised 1989 edition from the Women’s Press, edited by Le Guin.
In ‘Dreams Must Explain Themselves’ (1973), Le Guin touches on the reference works that she consults for her writing (I’m a copy-editor: you can bet my attention spiked at this point), and adds a later note elaborating on the subject. Those works are strikingly, deliberately few:
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