Exploring Language

by Gary Goshgarian

• ISBN13: 9780673523495
• ISBN10: 0673523497
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-01-01
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xvii
Introduction: Thinking and Reading Critically	p. 1
What Is Critical Thinking?	p. 1
Why Read Critically	p. 2
How to Read Critically	p. 3
Critical Reading in Action--Sample Essay for Analysis	p. 6
The Selling of Rebellion	p. 10
Logical Fallacies--What They Are and How to Avoid Them	p. 18
Logical Fallacies	p. 19
Exploring the Language of Visuals	p. 21
Some Useful URLs on Writing and Language	p. 22
Breaking Silences	p. 24
Beginnings: Moving from Silence into Language	p. 26
Language and Thought	p. 26
A Brief History of English	p. 31
The Story of Writing	p. 41
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Sign Language	p. 51
Personal Recollections: Coming into Language	p. 53
Homemade Education	p. 53
A Word for Everything	p. 56
The Language of Silence	p. 61
Spanish Lessons	p. 67
Case Study: Women Breaking Silences--A Historical Survey	p. 74
Seneca Falls Declaration	p. 74
Aren't I a Woman?	p. 78
Women Compelled to Prove Themselves	p. 80
Professions for Women	p. 83
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Rosie the Riveter	p. 88
Claiming an Education	p. 89
Exploring the Language of Visuals: The Guerrilla Girls	p. 94
Writers Writing: Words in Contexts	p. 97
The Writing Process	p. 99
Freewriting	p. 99
Writing for an Audience	p. 105
The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript	p. 108
Finding the Right Words	p. 113
Simplicity	p. 113
How to Write with Style	p. 119
Why "Techies" Need to Know How to Write	p. 123
Cliches, Anyone?	p. 132
Wired Language	p. 135
Language and the Internet	p. 137
The Other Side of E-Mail	p. 137
Internet Changes Language for:-) and :-(	p. 139
The Internet ... Good News or Bad Language	p. 143
Identity and Self Online	p. 146
The Virtual Community	p. 146
Can a Body Meet a Body Coming Through the Wire?	p. 152
Identity in the Age of the Internet	p. 155
Internet Spanglish	p. 162
The Language of Humor: What Makes Us Laugh	p. 166
What's Funny?	p. 168
Outsiders/Insiders	p. 168
Holocaust Humor	p. 178
Chris Rock: Seriously Funny	p. 184
In Answer to the Question: Have You Ever Considered Suicide?	p. 188
Excerpt from The LA LA Awards	p. 190
Case Study: Cartoons and Comic Strips	p. 198
What Is a Cartoon?	p. 199
Defiantly Incorrect: The Humor of John Callahan	p. 203
Editorial Cartoonist--An Endangered Species?	p. 208
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Sample Cartoons	p. 213
Politically Speaking	p. 219
Political Word Play	p. 221
How to Detect Propaganda	p. 221
Politics and the English Language	p. 227
Doubts About Doublespeak	p. 238
Changing the Language of Sex Crimes Against Children	p. 242
Case Study: GunSpeak--Political Pundits and the Public on Youth Violence in America	p. 246
Political Pundits Speak Out	p. 247
The Erosion of Empathy	p. 247
An Issue Beyond Ideology	p. 249
Missing the Mark	p. 251
Behind the School Shooting	p. 254
Stop Blaming Kids and TV	p. 257
The Public Speaks Out	p. 261
Lessons of Littleton	p. 261
Not Gun Shy	p. 263
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Anti-Gun Protest	p. 269
The Language of Mass Media and Advertising	p. 272
The Language of Mass Media	p. 275
Yadda, Yadda, Yadda	p. 275
Freedom to Talk Dirty	p. 278
TV News: All the World in Pictures	p. 281
Hurry Healing	p. 288
The Infatuation with Foul Language	p. 291
Two-Headed Monsters	p. 299
The Language of Advertising	p. 301
With These Words I Can Sell You Anything	p. 301
The Language of Advertising	p. 315
"Hey, Kids, Buy This!"	p. 326
Get Out of My Face! The Use of Coarse Language in Advertising	p. 333
Exploring The Language of Visuals: Three Sample Ads	p. 339
Censorship and Free Speech	p. 346
Censorship and Free Speech on Campus	p. 348
Regulating Racist Speech on Campus	p. 348
The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses	p. 353
In Praise of Censure	p. 360
Censorship and Free Speech in Cyberspace	p. 365
The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger?	p. 365
What Part of "NO Law" Don't You Understand?	p. 370
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Watching the Web	p. 378
See No Evil, Surf No Evil	p. 380
Censorship and Free Speech in Books	p. 383
The Freedom to Read	p. 383
Banned Books Week 1997: A Case of Misrepresentation	p. 387
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Huckleberry Finn Banned!	p. 390
Author's Afterword from Fahrenheit 451	p. 393
He Says/She Says	p. 397
Do Men and Women Speak the Same Language?	p. 399
Sex Differences	p. 399
"I'll Explain It to You": Lecturing and Listening	p. 405
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Roz Chast on Gender and Language	p. 419
The Mask of Masculinity	p. 421
Nonverbal Behavior: Culture, Gender, and the Media	p. 424
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Body Language	p. 428
Is English Sexually Biased?	p. 431
Introduction to the A-Z of Non-Sexist Language	p. 431
Gender Benders	p. 436
Life as a Female Gentleman	p. 439
Real Men Don't: Anti-Male Bias in English	p. 444
The Language of Labeling	p. 457
Slurs and Stereotypes	p. 459
"Nigger": The Meaning of a Word	p. 459
The Etymology of the International Insult	p. 463
Crimes Against Humanity	p. 467
Growing Up Asian in America	p. 475
Queer	p. 482
Case Study: Political Correctness	p. 486
Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines	p. 487
The Word Police	p. 498
In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons	p. 503
Beware the Advozealots: Mindless Good Intentions Injure the Handicapped	p. 507
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Callahan Cartoon	p. 511
What Is the Language of the American People?	p. 514
What Is "Standard" English?	p. 516
Good English and Bad	p. 516
Why Good English Is Good for You	p. 525
Not White, Just Right	p. 535
On Not Writing in English	p. 538
What's Not "Standard" English?--Slang and Jargon	p. 542
It Ain't No Big Thing	p. 542
Dangerous Dozens	p. 549
It's, Like, Extreme, But Not Gross	p. 553
Words of Wisdom	p. 557
Case Study: English Only or Bilingualism?	p. 562
Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Only Language	p. 562
Exploring the Language of Visuals: "Please Do Not Feed Pigeons"	p. 568
My Spanish Standoff	p. 570
Let's Not Say Adios to Bilingual Education	p. 572
Photo and Text Credits	p. 578
Index of Authors and Titles	p. 583
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