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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... women get hit with both mythologies at the same time. Anita Hill, for example, was portrayed as either a poor, weak, besotted woman desperately in love and so naive that she was used by Democrats as a tool to attack Supreme Court ...
... women get hit with both mythologies at the same time. Anita Hill, for example, was portrayed as either a poor, weak, besotted woman desperately in love and so naive that she was used by Democrats as a tool to attack Supreme Court ...
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... women are getting a bum deal. They don't get credit when it's due. And in a way, this is true. But the reason is not — as it seems to many women — that men are bums who seek to deny women authority. The Leet-Pellegrini study shows that ...
... women are getting a bum deal. They don't get credit when it's due. And in a way, this is true. But the reason is not — as it seems to many women — that men are bums who seek to deny women authority. The Leet-Pellegrini study shows that ...
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... WOMEN ARE "LURKERS" 27 Meanwhile, research shows that women who go online tend to send fewer messages per capita than do men and that their messages are shorter. There is also a widespread belief that more women than men are "lurkers ...
... WOMEN ARE "LURKERS" 27 Meanwhile, research shows that women who go online tend to send fewer messages per capita than do men and that their messages are shorter. There is also a widespread belief that more women than men are "lurkers ...
Contents
LANGUAGE BASICS AND BEGINNINGS | 2 |
A Brief History of English | 19 |
Homemade Education | 35 |
Copyright | |
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