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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... speech is never " free " in the two senses re- quired free of consequences and free from state pressure - speech always matters , is always doing work ; because everything we say impinges on the world in ways indistinguishable from the ...
... speech is never " free " in the two senses re- quired free of consequences and free from state pressure - speech always matters , is always doing work ; because everything we say impinges on the world in ways indistinguishable from the ...
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... speech and action . What role does language play in this distinction ? Explain . 5. What are " fighting words " ? What is the author's ... speech zones Silverglate / Muzzling Free Speech □ 487 Muzzling Free Speech Harvey A Silverglate.
... speech and action . What role does language play in this distinction ? Explain . 5. What are " fighting words " ? What is the author's ... speech zones Silverglate / Muzzling Free Speech □ 487 Muzzling Free Speech Harvey A Silverglate.
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... speech in the plaza . The next day , UH's president established the new , more restrictive , zone pol- icy , limiting free speech events on campus to the four zones previously designated for potentially disruptive speech . Students must ...
... speech in the plaza . The next day , UH's president established the new , more restrictive , zone pol- icy , limiting free speech events on campus to the four zones previously designated for potentially disruptive speech . Students must ...
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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