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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... Greece for several years , I asked him about his experiences : 3 4 5 6 7 What had Greece been like Tannen / " I'll Explain It to You " : Lecturing and Listening □ 255 "I'll Explain it to You": Lecturing and Listening Deborah Tannen.
... Greece for several years , I asked him about his experiences : 3 4 5 6 7 What had Greece been like Tannen / " I'll Explain It to You " : Lecturing and Listening □ 255 "I'll Explain it to You": Lecturing and Listening Deborah Tannen.
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... Deborah Tannen describes how television's love affair with conflict and confrontation is filtering into everyday conversation , in " Taking TV's ' War of Words ' Too Literally . " The section ends with an essay by Tom Shachtman called ...
... Deborah Tannen describes how television's love affair with conflict and confrontation is filtering into everyday conversation , in " Taking TV's ' War of Words ' Too Literally . " The section ends with an essay by Tom Shachtman called ...
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... Deborah Tannen In this essay , linguistic professor Deborah Tannen examines the ways in which we approach arguments and debates in our society . If ratings are any indication of American's viewing tastes , our culture prefers angry ...
... Deborah Tannen In this essay , linguistic professor Deborah Tannen examines the ways in which we approach arguments and debates in our society . If ratings are any indication of American's viewing tastes , our culture prefers angry ...
Contents
Thinking and Reading Critically | 1 |
Breaking Silences | 25 |
Now it is perhaps the greatest language of the world | 41 |
Copyright | |
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