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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... logogram within a given language , but an ideogram across languages . 15 Syllabaries 16 Logographic systems are inefficient for most languages because , if every single word in the language is to be represented by a different symbol ...
... logogram within a given language , but an ideogram across languages . 15 Syllabaries 16 Logographic systems are inefficient for most languages because , if every single word in the language is to be represented by a different symbol ...
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... logogram to stand for the word eye . Noting that , in speech , the word eye sounds like the word I , a clever scribe might decide to use to mean I in writing too . If the logogram for scream were then ice cream could be written ...
... logogram to stand for the word eye . Noting that , in speech , the word eye sounds like the word I , a clever scribe might decide to use to mean I in writing too . If the logogram for scream were then ice cream could be written ...
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... logographic systems of writing and true alphabets ? Why are logographic systems inefficient for recording and writing in most languages ? 6. In her closing paragraph , Millward comments , " few alphabets are perfect . Even if they are a ...
... logographic systems of writing and true alphabets ? Why are logographic systems inefficient for recording and writing in most languages ? 6. In her closing paragraph , Millward comments , " few alphabets are perfect . Even if they are a ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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