Geoffrey Nunberg: Talking Right

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Partner:: Grace Cathedral
Location:: Grace Cathedral
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 11.16.08
Speakers:: Rev. Alan Jones,; Geoffrey Nunberg
Tags:: language; democrats; republicans; campaign

Summary: One of the subtlest reasons Republicans may have been able to achieve such huge power is by controlling one of the least known - yet important - branches of American politics: language.

Geoffrey Nunberg, in his most recent book Talking Right, performs an intellectually rigorous analysis of how the Republicans have done a far better job than the Democrats of mastering the use of buzz phrases to mislead and distract.

In doing so, his book has garnered praise even from such right-wing wordsmiths as William Safire. Less than two weeks after the Presidential election, join us for a discussion of how language influenced the choice of our next President - Grace Cathedral

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Rev. Alan Jones

Alan Jones, Ph.D., has been dean of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco since 1985.

Jones was formerly the director of the Center for Christian Spirituality and Stephen F. Bayne Professor of Ascetical Theology at General Theological Seminary in New York City. Born and educated in England, Jones was also on the staff of Trinity Institute of Wall Street's Trinity Church. He became a citizen of the United States in 1975.

Jones is the author of several books, most notably, Soul Making, The Desert Way of Spirituality, Passion for Pilgrimage and most recently, The Soul's Journey: Exploring the Three Passages of the Spiritual Life with Dante as a Guide. He is widely known as a gifted preacher and travels throughout the world preaching, lecturing, and leading retreats.

Geoffrey Nunberg

Geoffrey Nunberg is an adjunct full professor at U.C. Berkeley's School of Information. He is also a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, and a consulting professor in the Stanford Department of Linguistics. His linguistics research includes work in semantics and pragmatics, text classification, and written-language structure, and he also works and writes on the social and cultural implications of digital technologies.

Mr. Nunberg does a feature on language on the NPR show "Fresh Air" and has written numerous commentaries on language for the Sunday New York Times Week in Review, as well as for other periodicals. He�s also contributed occasional "letters from America" to the BBC4 series "State of the Union" and was the former chair of the usage panel of the American Heritage Dictionary.

The full title of his most recent book is Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show.

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01.: Moderator Introduction

01 min 54 sec

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02.: Joe the Plumber

01 min 43 sec

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03.: Origin of Right-wing Media Savviness

02 min 11 sec

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04.: The Myth of Populism

01 min 04 sec

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05.: Capitalism - Distrust of the Rich, But Supporting the System that Made them Rich

01 min 53 sec

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06.: 2004-2008 The Years of Talking Dangerously

03 min 19 sec

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07.: 2008 The Language of Patriotism Backfires

01 min 41 sec

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08.: The Right Time to Hand over Power

01 min 36 sec

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09.: The Right's Hyjacking of Language

03 min 31 sec

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10.: Is Changing Connotation of Language Necessarily Bad?

02 min 43 sec

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11.: Reality Catches Up with Language

02 min 40 sec

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12.: Consumer Distinctions

03 min 06 sec

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13.: Obama Support and Prop 8 Passing in California

01 min 54 sec

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14.: Class Warfare/Distiction

04 min 11 sec

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15.: Connotation of the Word 'Christian'

02 min 39 sec

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16.: Q & A

00 min 19 sec

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17.: Q1: Will Democrats Be Able to Come Up with a Language?

02 min 19 sec

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18.: Q2: Defining Truth

01 min 59 sec

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19.: Q3: Correcting Peoples' English

02 min 02 sec

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20.: Q4: Future of Right Wing Leadership

03 min 01 sec

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21.: Q5: British Influenced English

02 min 18 sec

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22.: Q5: Democrats Losing 'Christian'

06 min 01 sec

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23.: Closing Remarks

02 min 01 sec

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Dissecting the Myth of Joe the Plumber

51 min 45 sec

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Volvo-Driving, Brie-Eating & Other Liberal Myths Debunked

51 min 45 sec

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Nunberg: 'Time Alone' Will Grant Gays Right to Marry

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