Exploring LanguageGary 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 | 88 |
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