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 98
... racial nightmare . Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever . The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself , and that is what has happened to the American Negro . Something within has reminded him of his birthright of ...
... racial nightmare . Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever . The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself , and that is what has happened to the American Negro . Something within has reminded him of his birthright of ...
Page 472
... racial harassment have been characterized in the press as " thought police , " but such policies generally do nothing more than impose sanctions against intentional face- to - face insults . When racist speech takes the form of face ...
... racial harassment have been characterized in the press as " thought police , " but such policies generally do nothing more than impose sanctions against intentional face- to - face insults . When racist speech takes the form of face ...
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... racial / ethnic slur in the English language is nigger , a word that this case study gives particular consideration . No other word condenses racial prejudice so powerfully . And , yet , as best - selling au- thor Gloria Naylor explains ...
... racial / ethnic slur in the English language is nigger , a word that this case study gives particular consideration . No other word condenses racial prejudice so powerfully . And , yet , as best - selling au- thor Gloria Naylor explains ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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