Exploring LanguageGary Goshgarian Now in its tenth edition, this marketleading language reader continues to feature thoughtprovoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society. For over 25 years, this engaging reader has challenged individuals to critically examine how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. This tenth edition maintains the integrity of past editions, while reflecting the new and fascinating language issues that exist in today's culture. Provocative selections are organized around nine major language areas, and then broken into stimulating sub-themes like political correctness, hate speech, language and the presidency, and censorship on campus, inviting readers to debate current social and cultural issues that are inseparable from language. Individuals interested in studying how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. |
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Page 124
... tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth . We are a species that needs and wants to un- derstand who we are . Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing , which is one reason ...
... tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth . We are a species that needs and wants to un- derstand who we are . Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing , which is one reason ...
Page 262
... tell me that this does happen . They may find themselves talking to someone who presses information on them so insistently that they give in and listen . They say they don't mind too much , however , if the information is interesting ...
... tell me that this does happen . They may find themselves talking to someone who presses information on them so insistently that they give in and listen . They say they don't mind too much , however , if the information is interesting ...
Page 314
... Tell me , Lord , how come I'm so black ? " " YOU'RE BLACK SO YOU COULD WITHSTAND THE HOT RAYS OF THE SUN IN AFRICA . " " Tell me , Lord , how come my hair is so nappy ? " " YOUR HAIR IS NAPPY SO THAT YOU WOULD NOT SWEAT UNDER THE HOT ...
... Tell me , Lord , how come I'm so black ? " " YOU'RE BLACK SO YOU COULD WITHSTAND THE HOT RAYS OF THE SUN IN AFRICA . " " Tell me , Lord , how come my hair is so nappy ? " " YOUR HAIR IS NAPPY SO THAT YOU WOULD NOT SWEAT UNDER THE HOT ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
Now it is perhaps the greatest language of the world | 41 |
Copyright | |
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