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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... viewers . This is not true for a newspaper page , which displays many items simulta- neously , allowing 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 ...
... viewers . This is not true for a newspaper page , which displays many items simulta- neously , allowing 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 ...
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... viewers hardly seem exercised by the increasing trash talk . Network representatives say offensive language ranks low on the list of things that viewers complain about - far behind the two biggest bugaboos , program preemptions and ...
... viewers hardly seem exercised by the increasing trash talk . Network representatives say offensive language ranks low on the list of things that viewers complain about - far behind the two biggest bugaboos , program preemptions and ...
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... viewers , it is le- gitimate to be concerned with the nature and the accuracy of the medium's repre- sentations of reality . Meticulous studies of program content and viewing habits conducted over the course of several decades by George ...
... viewers , it is le- gitimate to be concerned with the nature and the accuracy of the medium's repre- sentations of reality . Meticulous studies of program content and viewing habits conducted over the course of several decades by George ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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