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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... Gender - Free / Gender - Fair / Gender - Specific 26 Gender - free terms do not indicate sex and can be used for either women / girls or men / boys ( e.g. , teacher , bureaucrat , employee , hiker , operations manager , child , clerk ...
... Gender - Free / Gender - Fair / Gender - Specific 26 Gender - free terms do not indicate sex and can be used for either women / girls or men / boys ( e.g. , teacher , bureaucrat , employee , hiker , operations manager , child , clerk ...
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... Gender 37 An understanding of the difference between sex and gender is critical to the use of bias - free language . 38 Sex is biological : people with male genitals are male , and people with female genitals are female . 39 Gender is ...
... Gender 37 An understanding of the difference between sex and gender is critical to the use of bias - free language . 38 Sex is biological : people with male genitals are male , and people with female genitals are female . 39 Gender is ...
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... gender bias , or can it refer to other kinds of bias too ? 6. What is the difference between gender - free , gender - fair , and gender - specific language in paragraphs 26 through 31 ? What examples does Maggio supply for each one ...
... gender bias , or can it refer to other kinds of bias too ? 6. What is the difference between gender - free , gender - fair , and gender - specific language in paragraphs 26 through 31 ? What examples does Maggio supply for each one ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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