Exploring Language

Front Cover
Gary Goshgarian
HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995 - College readers

Contents

Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER
13
Freewriting PETER ELBOW
19
Revising Your Own Manuscript
28
Rhetorical Contents
35
The Man That Spelt Knife Was a Fool JOHNNY CONNORS
44
The Language of Silence MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
48
Language and Thought SUSANNE K LANGER
54
A Brief History of English PAUL ROBERTS
60
The Word Police MICHIKO KAKUTANI
311
The Meaning of a Word GLORIA NAYLOR
318
Please Dont Tell Me Another Jewish American Princess Joke CINDI
323
A Case Study in
332
Queer LILLIAN FADERMAN
341
Discrimination at Large JENNIFER A COLEMAN
346
Regulating Racist Speech on Campus
356
Free Speech on Campus NAT HENTOFF
362

English was a minor language spoken by a few people on a small
68
With These Words I Can Sell You Anything
72
WILLIAM LUTZ
73
A Word from Our Sponsor PATRICIA VOLK
88
The Language of Advertising CHARLES A ONEILL
92
The language of advertising is a language of finely engineered ruthlessly
94
Printed Noise GEORGE F WILL
105
Euphemisms for the Fat of the Land DIANE WHITE
108
Shooting Script for
111
Sample Ads and Study Questions
117
Just being the best is enough
124
Before the spouse the house the kids you get
130
THE LANGUAGE OF POLITICS
137
Talking Gender and Thinking War
138
INSTITUTE FOR PROPAGANDA ANALYSIS
140
Politics and the English Language GEORGE ORWELL
147
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defence of the
154
Dehumanizing People and Euphemizing War
159
Defining people as microorganisms and as subhuman made it easier
160
Talking Gender and Thinking
166
When Words Go to War BELLA ENGLISH
178
The Politics of Everyday Language
183
LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA
193
Now This NEIL POSTMAN
195
Civilized and Barbaric EDWARD S HERMAN
206
Journalese as a Second Tongue JOHN LEO
211
In Depth but Shallowly DAVE BARRY
215
TwoHeaded Monsters
220
LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
227
A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
228
From Africa to the New World and into the Space Age
229
Viva Bilingualism JAMES FALLOWS
238
A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood
244
learned the public language it would never again be for me
253
The Language of Discretion AMY TAN
265
African and American ELLEN GOODMAN
274
From Africa to the New World and into the Space Age GENEVA
278
Whats Wrong with Black English RACHEL L JONES
290
Some Guidelines ROSALIE MAGGIO
299
LANGUAGE AND SEXISM
373
One Small Step for Genkind
374
CASEY MILLER and KATE SWIFT
376
English Anyone? SPIRO T AGNEW
387
AntiMale Bias in English
396
Guide to Nonsexist Language UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
408
DEBORAH TANNEN
415
Is God Purple? MARY JO MEADOW
429
The Creation of Man and Woman from Genesis
434
Dont Rewrite the Bible MICHAEL GOLDEN
438
LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY
443
Into the Electronic Millennium SVEN BIRKERTS
445
Computer News and Floppy Novels
450
Technoslang MONDO 2000
453
The Wonders of Writing on a Computer
456
LoveMaker v3 1 JEFF MACGREGOR
459
Doubts About Doublespeak WILLIAM LUTZ
467
Euphemisms HUGH RAWSON
472
It is the essentially duplicitous nature of euphemisms that makes them
475
Doctor Talk DIANE JOHNSON
483
It May Not Be English But Its Strictly Legal
488
Legal jargon is taught in law schools and the sad fact is that most gradu
490
Little Red Riding Hood Revisited RUSSELL BAKER
492
The Nineties sounds lake a plausible concept largely because of
496
Why Good English Is Good for You
502
Good English and Bad BILL BRYSON
503
Why Good English Is Good for You JOHN SIMON
514
Simonspeak JIM QUINN
525
It Aint No Big Thing PAUL DICKSON
534
Hey Dude Like NEHoh Way
542
Like Uptalk? JAMES GORMAN
550
Acknowledgments
555
USING YOUR SENSES
561
From Africa to the New World and into the Space Age
62
OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE AND FREE SPEECH
67
A Case Study
80
Regulating Racist Speech on Campus
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