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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... advertising work ? Why is it so powerful ? Why does it raise such concern ? What case can be made for and against the advertising business ? In order to understand advertising , you must accept that it is not about truth , virtue , love ...
... advertising work ? Why is it so powerful ? Why does it raise such concern ? What case can be made for and against the advertising business ? In order to understand advertising , you must accept that it is not about truth , virtue , love ...
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... advertising business as a cranky , unwelcomed child of the free enterprise system - a noisy , whining , brash kid who must somehow be kept in line , but can't just yet be thrown out of the house . In reality , advertising mirrors the ...
... advertising business as a cranky , unwelcomed child of the free enterprise system - a noisy , whining , brash kid who must somehow be kept in line , but can't just yet be thrown out of the house . In reality , advertising mirrors the ...
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... advertising debases the intelligence of the public ? Those who support this particular criticism would do well to ask themselves an- other question : Exactly how intelligent is the public ? Sadly , evidence abounds that " the public ...
... advertising debases the intelligence of the public ? Those who support this particular criticism would do well to ask themselves an- other question : Exactly how intelligent is the public ? Sadly , evidence abounds that " the public ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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