Exploring LanguageGary Goshgarian "Exploring Language, 8th Edition, collects 84 selections in nine chapters to focus on some provocative aspects of American culture as they are revealed by language. Among the timely topics: the media and bias, computers and writing, black English, gender differences, "warspeak," advertising (as manipulation or art?), political double talk, and bilingualism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... Yemma Coloring Lessons 277 David Updike African and American 282 Ellen Goodman Innocent and Presumed Ethnic 286 John Yemma From Africa to the New World and into the Space Age 293 Geneva Smitherman What's Wrong with Black English 305 ...
... Yemma Coloring Lessons 277 David Updike African and American 282 Ellen Goodman Innocent and Presumed Ethnic 286 John Yemma From Africa to the New World and into the Space Age 293 Geneva Smitherman What's Wrong with Black English 305 ...
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... Yemma, his own presumed-ethnic experience reflects society's compulsion to pigeonhole people according to ethnicity. John Yemma is a professional journalist who writes for the Boston Globe where this piece originally appeared in August ...
... Yemma, his own presumed-ethnic experience reflects society's compulsion to pigeonhole people according to ethnicity. John Yemma is a professional journalist who writes for the Boston Globe where this piece originally appeared in August ...
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... Yemma waits so long to reveal the truth about his own ethnicity? What effect would it have had on the article if he had begun with the statement "I am of Italian-German-French descent"? What did you imagine Yemma looked like as you read ...
... Yemma waits so long to reveal the truth about his own ethnicity? What effect would it have had on the article if he had begun with the statement "I am of Italian-German-French descent"? What did you imagine Yemma looked like as you read ...
Contents
LANGUAGE BASICS AND BEGINNINGS | 2 |
A Brief History of English | 19 |
Homemade Education | 35 |
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