Exploring LanguageGary Goshgarian "Exploring Language, 8th Edition, collects 84 selections in nine chapters to focus on some provocative aspects of American culture as they are revealed by language. Among the timely topics: the media and bias, computers and writing, black English, gender differences, "warspeak," advertising (as manipulation or art?), political double talk, and bilingualism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... Dialect in the national press as well as in the educational research literature. We have had pronouncements on black speech from the NAACP and the Black Panthers, from highly publicized scholars of the Arthur Jensen-William Shockley ...
... Dialect in the national press as well as in the educational research literature. We have had pronouncements on black speech from the NAACP and the Black Panthers, from highly publicized scholars of the Arthur Jensen-William Shockley ...
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... dialect of Chicago, for example, is purely Northern inland. It came from western New England and Hartford, Conn., and became the basis for what you hear now around Cleveland, Detroit and the Great Lakes." 1 1 By the time prairie ...
... dialect of Chicago, for example, is purely Northern inland. It came from western New England and Hartford, Conn., and became the basis for what you hear now around Cleveland, Detroit and the Great Lakes." 1 1 By the time prairie ...
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... dialect — much like the Boston Brahmin accent — than a regional dialect. 33 In fact, what's most remarkable about the new dialect is how widespread it has become. Strongest in Southern California, where it seems to have started, the dialect ...
... dialect — much like the Boston Brahmin accent — than a regional dialect. 33 In fact, what's most remarkable about the new dialect is how widespread it has become. Strongest in Southern California, where it seems to have started, the dialect ...
Contents
LANGUAGE BASICS AND BEGINNINGS | 2 |
A Brief History of English | 19 |
Homemade Education | 35 |
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