Overview

This market-leading language reader features thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society. For more than 25 years, this engaging reader has challenged students to critically examine how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. This thirteenth 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 topics, and then broken into stimulating sub-themes like the connections between gender and language differences, hate speech, the language of war, and censorship on campus, inviting students to debate current social and cultural issues that are inseparable from language.

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Author:   Gary Goshgarian
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   14th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9780321965257

ISBN 10:   0321965256
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   27 November 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

*Chapter 1: Critical Thinking and Reading What Is Critical Thinking? Why Read Critically? How to Read Critically Logical Fallacies-What They Are and How to Avoid Them Exploring the Language of Visual Arguments Analyzing Visual Arguments *Chapter 2: Critical Writing Finding Topics to Write About The General Audience The Writing Process Developing Your Ideas Why Essays Need Supporting Evidence Forms of Evidence Some Tips About Supporting Evidence Structuring Your Essay * *Chapter 3: Researching Your Papers Sources of Information Locating Sources Evaluating Sources Drafting Your Paper Revising and Editing Your Paper Plagiarism *Chapter 4 Documentation Guide Where Does the Documentation Go Documentation Style A Brief Guide to MLA and APA Style Sample Student Research Paper Chapter 5: The Evolution of Language: Learning to Communicate From Hand to Mouth, Michael C. Corballis Language and Thought, Susanne K. Langer Horton Heared A Who!, Steven Pinker *Bilingual Mind: Understanding How the Brain Speaks Two Languages, Jeffrey Kluger *Visual: Four Letter Words Chunking, Ben Zimmer Another Language for the Deaf, Margalit Fox Visual: SignWriting Chapter 6: Language Awareness: Personal Recollections Homemade Education, Malcolm X A Word for Everything, Helen Keller Visual: American Sign Language Alphaet *Coming into Language, Jimmy Santiago Baca * Living with Dyslexia, Gareth Cook Spanish Lessons, Christine Marin The Language of Silence, Maxine Hong Kingston Chapter 7: Language Use: What's Your Language? Why the U.S. Needs an Official Language, Mauro E. Mujica *Visual: Speak American Do You Speak American? Robert MacNeil Everyone Has an Accent but Me, John Esling Good English and Bad, Bill Bryson Why Good English Is Good For You, John Simon The Like Virus, David Grambs Lost in America, Douglas McGray Chapter 8: Language and Technology: Our Digital Discourse In the Beginning Was the Word, Christine Rosen *Much ado about blogging, Scott Rosenberg Texting, David Crystal r u online?: The evolving lexicon of wired teens, Kris Axtman Visual: I Like Your Hoodie . . . (photograph) I Tweet, Therefore I Am, Peggy Orenstein *Note to Selfie, John Dickerson, Chapter 9: Language Dynamics: A Failure to Communicate? Women Talk Too Much, Janet Holmes What Language Barrier? Deborah Cameron Oh, Mom. Oh, Honey, Deborah Tannen Nonverbal Behavior, Teri Kwal Gamble & Michael W. Gamble Small-Scale Communication, Jennifer Akin Some Friends and I Started Talking, Margaret J. Wheatley Chapter 10: Language Sensitivity: You Can't Say That Hate Speech, Robin Tolmach Lakoff Hate Speech, Robin Tolmach Lakoff The Word Police, Michiko Kakutani *Excised by the Language Police, Dianne Ravich Hate Speech Cannot Be Tolerated, Richard Delgado Visual: Free Speech Area Nigger: The Meaning of a Word, Gloria Naylor *There Is No Such Thing as Free Speech, Stanley Fish Chapter 11: The Language Advertising: Why We Buy The Language of Advertising Claims, Jeffrey Schrank The Language of Advertising, Charles A O'Neill Be All That You Can Be: The Company Persona and Language Alignment, Frank Lunt *I Can't See Clearly Now, Martin Lindstrom Visual: Current Advertisements Chapter 12: Language and Government: Political Wordplay How to Detect Propaganda, Institute for Propaganda Analysis Doubts About Doublespeak, William Lutz Politics and the English Language, George Orwell Fighting Words: The War over Language, Jon Hooten Do You Speak Presidential?, Anna Marie Trester *Writing a Great Campaign Speech, James T. Snyder Freedom of Speech and the Editorial Cartoon, Doug Marlette Visual: Political Cartoons Chapter 13: Language of Change: Challenging the Status Quo Aren't I a Woman? Sojourner Truth *Nelson Mandela's Inaugural speech as State President *Speech at the March on Washington, Josephine Baker VISUAL: Elizabeth Eckford at Little Rock Central High School Inaugural Address, John F. Kennedy *Living the Revolution, Gloria Steinem Chapter 14: Language and Thought: Shaping the Brain Does Language Shape How You Think?, Guy Deutscher Chomsky's Universal Grammar, Bruno Dubuc Nothing Is Missing, Tom Munnecke Visual: Calvin and Hobbs (cartoon) You Say Up, I Say Yesterday, Joan O'C. Hamilton Lost in Translation, Lera Boroditsky *Is the Internet Changing the Way We Think?, John Naughton Mind over Mass Media, Steven Pinker

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