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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... Describe your own experience with language . 3. What is happening in this poem ? How does the poem connect back to this chapter's sub- theme of " coming into language " ? 4. Evaluate this poem for its artistic and linguistic merits . Do ...
... Describe your own experience with language . 3. What is happening in this poem ? How does the poem connect back to this chapter's sub- theme of " coming into language " ? 4. Evaluate this poem for its artistic and linguistic merits . Do ...
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... describe ? Can you think of additional small words that describe " big things " ? 2. In paragraph 7 , Lederer points out several proverbs that use small words . Identify at least three or four more and test his observation . Do short ...
... describe ? Can you think of additional small words that describe " big things " ? 2. In paragraph 7 , Lederer points out several proverbs that use small words . Identify at least three or four more and test his observation . Do short ...
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... describe the cows , but they're so far from home that they seem to describe the re- porters . What the journalist should have said was : Reporters saw a pasture contain- ing several cows that were dead , diseased , or dying . When a ...
... describe the cows , but they're so far from home that they seem to describe the re- porters . What the journalist should have said was : Reporters saw a pasture contain- ing several cows that were dead , diseased , or dying . When a ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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