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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... live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that ...
... live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that ...
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... live. 6 KERNEL: I am standing here live in front of City Hall being televised by the On-the-Spot Action Eyewitness News minicam with Mayor Bryce Hall- bread. 7 MAYOR: That's "Hallwood." 8 KERNEL: What? 9 MAYOR: MY NAME IS "HALLWOOD ...
... live. 6 KERNEL: I am standing here live in front of City Hall being televised by the On-the-Spot Action Eyewitness News minicam with Mayor Bryce Hall- bread. 7 MAYOR: That's "Hallwood." 8 KERNEL: What? 9 MAYOR: MY NAME IS "HALLWOOD ...
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... live out a ghettoized, English-only existence, because Japanese is no cinch, but foreign children raised in Japan pick up the language as the only way to participate. is The incentives for America's newcomers to learn English are never ...
... live out a ghettoized, English-only existence, because Japanese is no cinch, but foreign children raised in Japan pick up the language as the only way to participate. is The incentives for America's newcomers to learn English are never ...
Contents
LANGUAGE BASICS AND BEGINNINGS | 2 |
A Brief History of English | 19 |
Homemade Education | 35 |
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