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 264
... listen to women less frequently than women listen to men , be- cause the act of listening has different meanings for them . Some men really don't want to listen at length because they feel it frames them as subordinate . Many women do ...
... listen to women less frequently than women listen to men , be- cause the act of listening has different meanings for them . Some men really don't want to listen at length because they feel it frames them as subordinate . Many women do ...
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... listen . This is hard work for almost everyone , but if we talk about listening at the start of a conversation , it ... listen . We slow down so we have time to think and reflect . Most of us work in places where we rarely have time to ...
... listen . This is hard work for almost everyone , but if we talk about listening at the start of a conversation , it ... listen . We slow down so we have time to think and reflect . Most of us work in places where we rarely have time to ...
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... listen- ing moves us closer . When we listen with as little judgment as possible , we de- velop better relationships with each other . Sometimes we hesitate to listen for what's different because we don't want to change . We're ...
... listen- ing moves us closer . When we listen with as little judgment as possible , we de- velop better relationships with each other . Sometimes we hesitate to listen for what's different because we don't want to change . We're ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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