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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... copyrighted material , gratedful acknowledgement is made to the copy- right holders on pp . 601–607 , which are hereby made part of this copyright page . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Exploring language / edited ...
... copyrighted material , gratedful acknowledgement is made to the copy- right holders on pp . 601–607 , which are hereby made part of this copyright page . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Exploring language / edited ...
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... Copyright © 1994 by Stanley Fish . Oxford University Press . Reprinted by permission of the author . Harvey A. Silverglate , " Muzzling Free Speech " by Harvey Silverglate . Reprinted with per- mission from October 7 , 2002 edition of ...
... Copyright © 1994 by Stanley Fish . Oxford University Press . Reprinted by permission of the author . Harvey A. Silverglate , " Muzzling Free Speech " by Harvey Silverglate . Reprinted with per- mission from October 7 , 2002 edition of ...
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... Copyright © 1976 , 1977 , 1978 , 1979 , 1980 by John Simon . Used by permission of Clarkson N. Potter , Inc. Bill Bryson , “ Good English and Bad , " from The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson . Copyright © 1990 by Bill Bryson . Reprinted by ...
... Copyright © 1976 , 1977 , 1978 , 1979 , 1980 by John Simon . Used by permission of Clarkson N. Potter , Inc. Bill Bryson , “ Good English and Bad , " from The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson . Copyright © 1990 by Bill Bryson . Reprinted by ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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