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 40
... English language has moved a long way from what it was in 1600 . The history of English since 1700 is filled with many movements and counter- movements , of which we can notice only a couple . One of these is the vigorous at- tempt made ...
... English language has moved a long way from what it was in 1600 . The history of English since 1700 is filled with many movements and counter- movements , of which we can notice only a couple . One of these is the vigorous at- tempt made ...
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... English was a minor language , spoken by a few people on a small island . Now it is perhaps the greatest language of the world , spoken natively by over a quarter of a billion people and as a second language by many millions more . When ...
... English was a minor language , spoken by a few people on a small island . Now it is perhaps the greatest language of the world , spoken natively by over a quarter of a billion people and as a second language by many millions more . When ...
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... English dictionaries were either proscribed or ( as when Malory or Sir Philip Sidney were writing ) did not exist . " ( Robert Burchfield , The English Language ) Make it " was writing . " " A range of sentences forming statements ...
... English dictionaries were either proscribed or ( as when Malory or Sir Philip Sidney were writing ) did not exist . " ( Robert Burchfield , The English Language ) Make it " was writing . " " A range of sentences forming statements ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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