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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... readers and weakens an argument . Is the Evidence Reliable ? Not Dated ? Evidence should not be so vague or dated that it fails to support one's claim . For instance , it wouldn't be accurate to say that Candidate Jones fails to support ...
... readers and weakens an argument . Is the Evidence Reliable ? Not Dated ? Evidence should not be so vague or dated that it fails to support one's claim . For instance , it wouldn't be accurate to say that Candidate Jones fails to support ...
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... readers , whatever you're writing . If you scribble your thoughts any which way , your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them . They will mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead - or worse , they will stop reading ...
... readers , whatever you're writing . If you scribble your thoughts any which way , your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them . They will mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead - or worse , they will stop reading ...
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... readers to choose the order in which they read them . If newspa- per readers want only a summary of the latest tax bill , they can read the headline and the first paragraph of an article , and if they want more , they can keep reading ...
... readers to choose the order in which they read them . If newspa- per readers want only a summary of the latest tax bill , they can read the headline and the first paragraph of an article , and if they want more , they can keep reading ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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