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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... Reprinted with Permission . Page 356 : Jeff Stahler reprinted by permission of Newspaper Enterprise Association , Inc. Page 357 : Jeff Parker , Florida Today . Page 358 : Corky Trinidad , Honolulu Star , September 16 , 2001. Page 360 ...
... Reprinted with Permission . Page 356 : Jeff Stahler reprinted by permission of Newspaper Enterprise Association , Inc. Page 357 : Jeff Parker , Florida Today . Page 358 : Corky Trinidad , Honolulu Star , September 16 , 2001. Page 360 ...
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... permission of Grosset & Dunlap , Inc. , a division of Penguin Group ( USA ) . Kurt Vonnegut , " How to Write with Style . " Copyright © 1982 by International Paper Com- pany . Reprinted by permission of International Paper Company ...
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... Reprinted by permission of the author . Harvey A. Silverglate , “ Muzzling Free Speech " by Harvey Silverglate . Reprinted with per- mission from October 7 , 2002 edition of the National Law Journal © 2002 NLP IP Company . All rights ...
... Reprinted by permission of the author . Harvey A. Silverglate , “ Muzzling Free Speech " by Harvey Silverglate . Reprinted with per- mission from October 7 , 2002 edition of the National Law Journal © 2002 NLP IP Company . All rights ...
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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