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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... Black America. That is, while some blacks speak very Black English, there are others who speak very White English, and still others who are competent in both linguistic systems. Historically, black speech has been demanded of those who ...
... Black America. That is, while some blacks speak very Black English, there are others who speak very White English, and still others who are competent in both linguistic systems. Historically, black speech has been demanded of those who ...
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... English. " 31 Recall that not all blacks in early America were slaves; many either were freed by their masters or ... black writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Frederick Douglass, and others wrote in the current White English ...
... English. " 31 Recall that not all blacks in early America were slaves; many either were freed by their masters or ... black writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Frederick Douglass, and others wrote in the current White English ...
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... English, issuing forth from "clumsy, jungle tongues and thick lips," anybody knowledgeable about African-English language mixtures can readily discern the systematic African element in ... black English, Smitherman GENEVA SMITHERMAN 303.
... English, issuing forth from "clumsy, jungle tongues and thick lips," anybody knowledgeable about African-English language mixtures can readily discern the systematic African element in ... black English, Smitherman GENEVA SMITHERMAN 303.
Contents
LANGUAGE BASICS AND BEGINNINGS | 2 |
A Brief History of English | 19 |
Homemade Education | 35 |
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