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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... girls came in. 11 It was a girls' toilet I was in. 12 "Hurry on, Mary, and pull your bloomers up when you leave." 13 I made a burst for the door and my trousers tripped me up. I ran out the gate of the school. As I was going out I met ...
... girls came in. 11 It was a girls' toilet I was in. 12 "Hurry on, Mary, and pull your bloomers up when you leave." 13 I made a burst for the door and my trousers tripped me up. I ran out the gate of the school. As I was going out I met ...
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... girls or men/boys (e.g., teacher, bureaucrat, employee, hiker, operations manager, child, clerk, sales rep, hospital ... girls and boys an approximately equal number of times, and you will carefully observe what the children do, and not ...
... girls or men/boys (e.g., teacher, bureaucrat, employee, hiker, operations manager, child, clerk, sales rep, hospital ... girls and boys an approximately equal number of times, and you will carefully observe what the children do, and not ...
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... girl being a wallflower, a clinging vine, or a shrinking violet, or to give girls such names as Ivy, Rose, Lily, Iris, Daisy, Camellia, Heather, and Flora. A plant metaphor can be used with a man if the plant is big and strong, for ...
... girl being a wallflower, a clinging vine, or a shrinking violet, or to give girls such names as Ivy, Rose, Lily, Iris, Daisy, Camellia, Heather, and Flora. A plant metaphor can be used with a man if the plant is big and strong, for ...
Contents
LANGUAGE BASICS AND BEGINNINGS | 2 |
A Brief History of English | 19 |
Homemade Education | 35 |
Copyright | |
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