Exploring Language

by Goshgarian, Gary; Goshgarian, Gary

Edition:

9th

ISBN13:

9780321055187

ISBN10:

0321055187

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Paperback

Pub. Date:

7/1/2000

Publisher(s):

Addison-Wesley

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This language reader 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. Gender and language Hate speech Language of war Censorship MARKET: General Interest

Preface

xvii

Introduction: Thinking and Reading Critically

(1)

What Is Critical Thinking?

(1)

Why Read Critically

(1)

How to Read Critically

(3)

Critical Reading in Action---Sample Essay for Analysis

(12)

The Selling of Rebellion

(8)

John Leo

Logical Fallacies---What They Are and How to Avoid Them

(1)

Logical Fallacies

(2)

Exploring the Language of Visuals

(1)

Some Useful URLs on Writing and Language

(2)

Breaking Silences

(73)

Beginnings: Moving from Silence into Language

(25)

Language and Thought

(5)

Susanne K. Langer

A Brief History of English

(10)

Paul Roberts

The Story of Writing

(10)

C. M. Millward

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Sign Language

(2)

Personal Recollections: Coming into Language

(21)

Homemade Education

(3)

Malcolm X

A Word for Everything

(5)

Helen Keller

The Language of Silence

(6)

Maxine Hong Kingston

Spanish Lessons

(7)

Christine Marin

Case Study: Women Breaking Silences---A Historical Survey

(14)

Seneca Falls Declaration

(4)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Aren't I a Woman?

(2)

Sojourner Truth

Women Compelled to Prove Themselves

(3)

Carrie Lane Chapman Catt

Professions for Women

(5)

Virginia Woolf

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Rosie the Riveter

(6)

Claiming an Education

(5)

Adrienne Rich

Exploring the Language of Visuals: The Guerrilla Girls

(3)

Writers Writing: Words in Contexts

(38)

The Writing Process

(14)

Freewriting

(6)

Peter Elbow

Writing for an Audience

105

(3)

Linda Flower

The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript

108

(5)

Donald M. Murray

Finding the Right Words

113

(22)

Simplicity

113

(6)

William Zinsser

How to Write with Style

119

(4)

Kurt Vonnegut

Why ``Techies'' Need to Know How to Write

123

(9)

Jeffrey Doughty

Cliches, Anyone?

132

(3)

James Isaacs

Wired Language

135

(31)

Language and the Internet

137

(9)

The Other Side of E-Mail

137

(2)

Robert Kuttner

Internet Changes Language for:-) & :-(

139

(4)

Amy Harmon

The Internet... Good News or Bad Language

143

(3)

Robert Henderson

Identity and Self Online

146

(20)

The Virtual Community

146

(6)

Howard Rheingold

Can a Body Meet a Body Coming Through the Wire?

152

(3)

Chet Raymo

Identity in the Age of the Internet

155

(7)

Sherry Turkel

Internet Spanglish

162

(4)

Vanessa Bauza

The Language of Humor: What Makes Us Laugh

166

(53)

What's Funny?

168

(30)

Outsiders/Insiders

168

(10)

Joseph Boskin

Holocaust Humor

178

(6)

Shai Oster

Chris Rock: Seriously Funny

184

(4)

Christopher John Farley

In Answer to the Question: Have You Ever Considered Suicide?

188

(2)

Kate Rushin

Excerpt from The LA LA Awards

190

(8)

Latins Anonymous

Case Study: Cartoons and Comic Strips

198

(15)

What Is a Cartoon?

199

(4)

Mort Gerberg

Defiantly Incorrect: The Humor of John Callahan

203

(5)

Timothy Egan

Editorial Cartoonists---An Endangered Species?

208

(5)

Doug Marlette

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Sample Cartoons

213

(6)

Politically Speaking

219

(53)

Political Word Play

221

(25)

How to Detect Propaganda

221

(6)

Politics and the English Language

227

(11)

George Orwell

Doubts About Doublespeak

238

(4)

William Lutz

Changing the Language of Sex Crimes Against Children

242

(4)

Richard Hoffman

Case Study: GunSpeak---Political Pundits and the Public on Youth Violence in America

246

(1)

Political Pundits Speak Out

247

(14)

The Erosion of Empathy

247

(2)

Sissela Bok

An Issue Beyond Ideology

249

(2)

Jim Sleeper

Missing the Mark

251

(3)

Jackson Katz

Sut Jhally

Behind the School Shooting

254

(3)

Robert W. Lee

Stop Blaming Kids and TV

257

(4)

Mike Males

The Public Speaks Out

261

(8)

Lessons of Littleton

261

(2)

Letters to the Editor of Newsweek magazine

Not Gun Shy

263

(6)

Stan Grossfeld

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Anti-Gun Protest

269

(3)

The Language of Mass Media and Advertising

272

(74)

The Language of Mass Media

275

(26)

Yadda, Yadda, Yadda

275

(3)

Leslie Savan

Freedom to Talk Dirty

278

(3)

Deborah Tannen

TV News: All the World in Pictures

281

(7)

Neil Postman

Steve Powers

Hurry Healing

288

(3)

Ellen Goodman

The Infatuation with Foul Language

291

(8)

Michael Medved

Two-Headed Monsters

299

(2)

The Language of Advertising

301

(38)

With These Words I Can Sell You Anything

301

(14)

William Lutz

The Language of Advertising

315

(11)

Charles A. O'Neill

``Hey, Kids, Buy This!''

326

(7)

David Leonhardt

Kathleen Kerwin

Get Out of My Face! The Use of Coarse Language in Advertising

333

(6)

Herschell Gordon Lewis

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Three Sample Ads

339

(7)

Censorship and Free Speech

346

(51)

Censorship and Free Speech on Campus

348

(17)

Regulating Racist Speech on Campus

348

(5)

Charles R. Lawrence III

The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses

353

(7)

Alan C. Kors

In Praise of Censure

360

(5)

Garry Wills

Censorship and Free Speech in Cyberspace

365

(13)

The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger?

365

(5)

Cathleen A. Cleaver

What Part of ``No Law'' Don't You Understand?

370

(8)

William Bennett Turner

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Watching the Web

378

(5)

See No Evil, Surf No Evil

380

(3)

John Leo

Censorship and Free Speech in Books

383

(7)

The Freedom to Read

383

(4)

Banned Books Week 1997: A Case of Misrepresentation

387

(3)

Steve McKinzie

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Huckleberry Finn Banned!

390

(7)

Author's Afterword from Fahrenheit 451

393

(4)

Ray Bradbury

He Says/She Says

397

(60)

Do Men and Women Speak the Same Language?

399

(20)

Sex Differences

399

(6)

Ronald Macaulay

``I'll Explain It to You'': Lecturing and Listening

405

(14)

Deborah Tannen

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Roz Chast on Gender and Language

419

(9)

The Mask of Masculinity

421

(3)

George Will

Nonverbal Behavior: Culture, Gender, and the Media

424

(4)

Teri Kwal Gamble

Michael W. Gamble

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Body Language

428

(3)

Is English Sexually Biased?

431

(26)

Introduction to the A--Z of Non-Sexist Language

431

(5)

Margaret Doyle

Gender Benders

436

(3)

Jack Rosenthal

Life as a Female Gentleman

439

(5)

Lani Guinier

Real Men Don't: Anti-Male Bias in English

444

(13)

Eugene R. August

The Language of Labeling

457

(57)

Slurs and Stereotypes

459

(27)

``Nigger'': The Meaning of a Word

459

(4)

Gloria Naylor

The Etymology of the International Insult

463

(4)

Charles F. Berlitz

Crimes Against Humanity

467

(8)

Ward Churchill

Growing Up Asian in America

475

(7)

Kesaya E. Noda

Queer

482

(4)

Lillian Faderman

Case Study: Political Correctness

486

(25)

Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines

487

(11)

Rosalie Maggio

The Word Police

498

(5)

Michiko Kakutani

In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons

503

(4)

Amy Tan

Beware the Advozealots: Mindless Good Intentions Injure the Handicapped

507

(4)

Bernard Rimland

Exploring the Language of Visuals: Callahan Cartoon

511

(3)

What Is the Language of the American People?

514

(64)

What Is ``Standard'' English?

516

(26)

Good English and Bad

516

(9)

Bill Bryson

Why Good English Is Good for You

525

(10)

John Simon

Not White, Just Right

535

(3)

Rachel L. Jones

On Not Writing in English

538

(4)

Aurora Levins Morales

What's Not ``Standard'' English?---Slang and Jargon

542

(20)

It Ain't No Big Thing

542

(7)

Paul Dickson

Dangerous Dozens

549

(4)

Anne Ashmore-Hudson

It's, Like, Extreme, But Not Gross

553

(4)

Scot Lehigh

Words of Wisdom

557

(5)

Audrey Y. Williams

Case Study: English Only or Bilingualism?

562

(6)

Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Only Language

562

(6)

S. I. Hayakawa

Exploring the Language of Visuals: ``Please Do Not Feed Pigeons''

568

(10)

My Spanish Standoff

570

(2)

Gabriella Kuntz

Let's Not Say Adios to Bilingual Education

572

(6)

Lourdes Rovira

Photo and Text Credits

578

(5)

Index of Authors and Titles

583

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