Language, reality and power

In: J. Culpeper et al. (eds) English Language: Description, Variation and Context. — Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.The article discusses how do inequalities of power affect which of the many available ways of construing the real world in language become the dominant ones? This is the main question I shall address. But why ways of construing the world rather than simply ways of representing the world? Because the familiar and simple term represent can be deceptively simple.