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 89
... woman in the social state , should also be required of man , and the same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man and woman . Resolved , That the objection of indelicacy and impropriety , which is so often ...
... woman in the social state , should also be required of man , and the same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man and woman . Resolved , That the objection of indelicacy and impropriety , which is so often ...
Page 101
... woman ? I have borne thirteen children and seen them almost all sold off into slavery , and when I cried out with a mother's grief , none but Jesus heard — and aren't I a woman ? Then they talk about this thing in the head - what's this ...
... woman ? I have borne thirteen children and seen them almost all sold off into slavery , and when I cried out with a mother's grief , none but Jesus heard — and aren't I a woman ? Then they talk about this thing in the head - what's this ...
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... woman giving a stream of feedback and support will seem to be talking too much for a listener . To a woman who expects a listener to be active and enthusiastic in showing interest , at- tention , and support , a man who listens silently ...
... woman giving a stream of feedback and support will seem to be talking too much for a listener . To a woman who expects a listener to be active and enthusiastic in showing interest , at- tention , and support , a man who listens silently ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
A Brief History of English | 32 |
Copyright | |
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