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Exploring Langauge features thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society. The text challenges the reader to critically examine how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language.  Key topics include Gender and Language; Hate Speech; Language of War; Censorship.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Critical Thinking   1. Breaking Silences     Beginnings: Evolution of Language Visual: Tower of Babel From Hand to Mouth (Michael C. Corballis) Language and Thought (Susanne K. Langer) Horton Heared a Who! (Steven Pinker) Another Language for the Deaf (Margalit Fox) Visual: SignWriting Speaking in Tongues (James Geary) How Do You Learn a Dead Language? (Cynthia Cyr) Personal Recollections: Coming into Language                 Homemade Education (Malcolm X)      A Word for Everything (Helen Keller)   Visual: American Sign Language            My Yiddish (Leonard Michaels)            Spanish Lessons (Christine Marin)        Language of Silence (Maxine Hong Kingston)   Visual: A Child’s First Story   2. Writers on Writing The Writing Process Writing for an Audience (Linda Flower) Getting Started (Anne Lamott) Computers Invite a Tangled Web of Complications (P.J. O’Rourke) Writing to Change the World (Mary Piper) Visual: The Secret Lives of Fonts          On Good Writing (John Leo) Finding the Right Words                  The Case for Short Words (Richard Lederer) Saying is Believing (Patricia T. O’Connor) Cliché’s Anyone (James Isaacs) Selection, Slanting and Charged Language (Newman P. Birk & Genevieve B. Birk)   3. A World of Language What Is “American” English? Do You Speak American (Robert MacNeil) Everyone Has an Accent but Me (John Esling) Good English and Bad (Bill Bryson) Why the U.S. Needs an Official Language (Mauro E. Mujica) And May He Be Bilingual (Julia Ortiz Cofer) English as a Global Language Why a Global Language? (David Crystal) What Global Language? (Barbara Walraff) Not the Queen’s English (Carla Power) Lost in America (Douglas McGray)   4. Technology and Language Making Connections in a Modern World Is PowerPoint the Devil? (Julia Keller) Visual: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint, (Peter Norvig) The Making of the Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation (Peter Norvig) Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissim (Christine Rosen) Virtually Trustworthy (Judith Donath) Virtually Speaking Texting (David Crystal) r u online? (Kris Axtman) Thx for the IView! I Wud ♥ 2 Work 4 U!! ;) (Sarah E. Needleman) The Other Side of E-Mail (Robert Kuttner) Blogging in the Global Lunchroom (Geoffrey Nunberg)   5. The Communication Gap: How We Speak to Each Other He Says/She Says Women Talk Too Much (Janet Holmes) No Detail is Too Small (Tony Korheiser) Sex Differences (Ronald Maculay) Right-Through Stare (Aletheia Plankiw) “I’ll Explain it To You” Lecturing and Listening  (Deborah Tannen) Visual: Men Are from Belgium, Women Are from New Brunswick What We Say and How We Say It Nonverbal Behavior: Culture, Gender, and the Media (Kwal Gamble and Gamble) Small-Scale Communication (Jennifer Akin) The Like Virus (David Grambs) Some Friends and I Started Talking (Margaret J.Wheatley) Speaking Personally (John Guinan)   6. The Language of Humor: What Makes Us Laugh What’s Funny? Outsiders/Insiders (Joseph Boskin) Laughter's New Profile (Lorraine Ali) Why Black Humor is So Black (Wil Haygood) What’s So Funny? (Regina Barreca) Funny Box: Editorial Cartoons What Is a Cartoon?  (Mort Goldberg) Visuals: Sample Cartoons Freedom of Speech and the Editorial Cartoon? (Doug Marlette) Defiantly Incorrect: Humor of John Callahan (Timothy Egan) Visual: Callahan Cartoon “Wheelchair Posse” 7. Language and the Media The Language of Advertising With These Words I Can Sell You Anything (William Lutz) The Language of Advertising (Charles A O'Neill) Language Abuse (Herschell Gordon Lewis) How Tobacco Company "Anti-Smoking" Ads Appeal to Teens (Carrie McLaren) Visual: Current Advertisements In Your Living Room: Language in Popular Media TV News: All the World in Pictures (Neil Postman and Steve Powers) Are We Losing Da Youth? (Danny Schechter) Letting Words Fly (John T. McWhorter) Is Bad Language Unacceptable on TV? (BBC Online) Taking TV’s 'War of Words' Too Literally (Deborah Tannen)   8. Censorship and Free Speech Biased Language and Hate Speech Hate Speech (Robin Tomach Lakoff) Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines (Rosalie Maggio) The Word Police (Michiko Kakutani) Visual: Depictions of the Cleveland Indians’ mascot Chief Wahoo “Nigger” The Meaning of a Word (Gloria Naylor) A Note on “Ho” (Michael Geis) Censorship and Free Speech The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (Alan C Kors) Regulating Racist Speech on Campus (Charles Lawrence III) There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too (Stanley Fish) Hate Cannot Be Tolerated (Richard Delgado) Visual: Free Speech Zone (Zachary Parker)   9. Political Wordplay Politically Speaking How to Detect Propaganda (Institute for Propaganda Analysis) Doubts about Doublespeak (William Lutz) Visual: 24/7 Cartoon Thirty Second Democracy: Campaign Advertising and American Elections (Paul Freedman) Visual: Presidential Television Ads Fighting Words (Jon Hooten)    Semantics of Murder (Amir Taheri) Speaking Out: Language that Inspired Change                  Letter from Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr)     Aren’t I a Woman? (Sojourner Truth) Struggle for Human Rights (Eleanor Roosevelt) Visual: Margaret Sanger Silenced Nobel Lecture on Global Warming   Credits Index of Authors and Titles  


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780205672660
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 592
  • Width: 162 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0205672663
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jun 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 694 gr


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