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 124
... tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth . We are a species that needs and wants to un- derstand who we are . Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing , which is one reason ...
... tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth . We are a species that needs and wants to un- derstand who we are . Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing , which is one reason ...
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... tell me that this does . happen . They may find themselves talking to someone who presses information on them so insistently that they give in and listen . They say they don't mind too much , however , if the information is interesting ...
... tell me that this does . happen . They may find themselves talking to someone who presses information on them so insistently that they give in and listen . They say they don't mind too much , however , if the information is interesting ...
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... telling a joke at a party . You begin , " There was an old man who couldn't sleep . . . " And you go on to tell what the ... tell your story to your audience without personally standing in front of them . Composition is remote control ...
... telling a joke at a party . You begin , " There was an old man who couldn't sleep . . . " And you go on to tell what the ... tell your story to your audience without personally standing in front of them . Composition is remote control ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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