Exploring Language

by Goshgarian, Gary; Goshgarian, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780321055187
• ISBN10: 0321055187
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Preface	xvii
Introduction: Thinking and Reading Critically	1	(1)
What Is Critical Thinking?	1	(1)
Why Read Critically	2	(1)
How to Read Critically	3	(3)
Critical Reading in Action---Sample Essay for Analysis	6	(12)
The Selling of Rebellion	10	(8)
John Leo
Logical Fallacies---What They Are and How to Avoid Them	18	(1)
Logical Fallacies	19	(2)
Exploring the Language of Visuals	21	(1)
Some Useful URLs on Writing and Language	22	(2)
Breaking Silences	24	(73)
Beginnings: Moving from Silence into Language	26	(25)
Language and Thought	26	(5)
Susanne K. Langer
A Brief History of English	31	(10)
Paul Roberts
The Story of Writing	41	(10)
C. M. Millward
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Sign Language	51	(2)
Personal Recollections: Coming into Language	53	(21)
Homemade Education	53	(3)
Malcolm X
A Word for Everything	56	(5)
Helen Keller
The Language of Silence	61	(6)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Spanish Lessons	67	(7)
Christine Marin
Case Study: Women Breaking Silences---A Historical Survey	74	(14)
Seneca Falls Declaration	74	(4)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Aren't I a Woman?	78	(2)
Sojourner Truth
Women Compelled to Prove Themselves	80	(3)
Carrie Lane Chapman Catt
Professions for Women	83	(5)
Virginia Woolf
Exploring the Language of Visuals: Rosie the Riveter	88	(6)
Claiming an Education	89	(5)
Adrienne Rich
Exploring the Language of Visuals: The Guerrilla Girls	94	(3)
Writers Writing: Words in Contexts	97	(38)
The Writing Process	99	(14)
Freewriting	99	(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