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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... jargon , and convoluted con- structions to make what they say sound “ smarter . ” However , all they achieve with this approach is poor writing . Richard Lederer explains in the section's first essay , " The Case for Short Words ...
... jargon , and convoluted con- structions to make what they say sound “ smarter . ” However , all they achieve with this approach is poor writing . Richard Lederer explains in the section's first essay , " The Case for Short Words ...
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... jargon words dead and living , he would see at once that language was being used in an improper way . Many political words are similarly abused . The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies " something not ...
... jargon words dead and living , he would see at once that language was being used in an improper way . Many political words are similarly abused . The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies " something not ...
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... jargon from ruthlessly devious coinages such as " ethnic cleansing , " which attempt to mask barbaric acts . William ... jargon , the specialized language of a trade , profession or similar group , such as doctors , lawyers , plumbers or ...
... jargon from ruthlessly devious coinages such as " ethnic cleansing , " which attempt to mask barbaric acts . William ... jargon , the specialized language of a trade , profession or similar group , such as doctors , lawyers , plumbers or ...
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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