Exploring Language Plus NEW MyWritingLab -- Access Card Package
14th Edition
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Gary Goshgarian
Exploring Language
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01/2012
13th Edition
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Content
Introduction:
Critical Reading
* Critical Writing
Chapter 1: Language Evolution: Learning to Speak
? From Hand to Mouth, Michael C. Corballis
? Language and Thought, Susanne K. Langer
? Horton Heared A Who!, Steven Pinker
? Chunking, Ben Zimmer
? Another Language for the Deaf, Margalit Fox
? Visual: SignWriting (
?
Chapter 2: Coming into Language: Personal Recollections
? Homemade Education, Malcolm X
? A Word for Everything, Helen Keller
? Visual: Sign Language
? Spanish Lessons, Christine Marin
? The Language of Silence, Maxine Hong Kingston
?
Chapter 3: Say What? Language in Action
? 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
? Why the U.S. Needs an Official Language, Mauro E. Mujica
? Why a Global Language?, David Crystal
? Lost in America, Douglas McGray
Chapter 4: Language and Technology: Forging Connections
? In the Beginning Was the Word, Christine Rosen
? Texting, David Crystal
? Visual: If You Can't Beat 'Em . . . (cartoon)
? r u online?: The evolving lexicon of wired teens, Kris Axtman
? Three Tweets for the Web, Tyler Cowen
? I Tweet, Therefore I Am, Peggy Orenstein
Chapter 5: Language Differences: Please Understand Me!
? 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
? [Need piece on language anonymity conversation, and debate online]
? Small-Scale Communication, Jennifer Akin
? Some Friends and I Started Talking, Margaret J. Wheatley
?
Chapter 6: Language Sensitivity: Can We Speak Freely?
? Hate Speech, Robin Tolmach Lakoff
? Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines, Rosalie Maggio
? Excerpt from Diane Ravitch
? The Word Police, Michiko Kakutani
? "Nigger": The Meaning of a Word, Gloria Naylor
? ? Hate Speech Cannot be Tolerated, Richard Delgado
? There is No Such Thing as Free Speech, Stanley Fish
Chapter 7: The Language Advertising: Words that Sell
? With These Words I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz [
? The Language of Advertising, Charles A. O'Neill
? Be All That You Can Be: The Company
Persona and Language Alignment, Frank Lunt
? ? Visual: Current Advertisements
Chapter 8: Language in Print
? Out of Print, Eric Alterman
? Is Print Dead?, J.A. Konrath
? Are We Reaching Da Youth?, Danny Schechter
? Will the Death of Newspapers Also Kill Our Freedoms?, Frank Watson
? Freedom of Speech and the Editorial Cartoon, Doug Marlette
Visual: Editorial Cartoons
? Piece on cursive writing
? Death of books-libraries with no books
Chapter 9: 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
? Poly-speak. Speechwriting. How to write a great speech.
?
Critical Reading
* Critical Writing
Chapter 1: Language Evolution: Learning to Speak
? From Hand to Mouth, Michael C. Corballis
? Language and Thought, Susanne K. Langer
? Horton Heared A Who!, Steven Pinker
? Chunking, Ben Zimmer
? Another Language for the Deaf, Margalit Fox
? Visual: SignWriting (
?
Chapter 2: Coming into Language: Personal Recollections
? Homemade Education, Malcolm X
? A Word for Everything, Helen Keller
? Visual: Sign Language
? Spanish Lessons, Christine Marin
? The Language of Silence, Maxine Hong Kingston
?
Chapter 3: Say What? Language in Action
? 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
? Why the U.S. Needs an Official Language, Mauro E. Mujica
? Why a Global Language?, David Crystal
? Lost in America, Douglas McGray
Chapter 4: Language and Technology: Forging Connections
? In the Beginning Was the Word, Christine Rosen
? Texting, David Crystal
? Visual: If You Can't Beat 'Em . . . (cartoon)
? r u online?: The evolving lexicon of wired teens, Kris Axtman
? Three Tweets for the Web, Tyler Cowen
? I Tweet, Therefore I Am, Peggy Orenstein
Chapter 5: Language Differences: Please Understand Me!
? 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
? [Need piece on language anonymity conversation, and debate online]
? Small-Scale Communication, Jennifer Akin
? Some Friends and I Started Talking, Margaret J. Wheatley
?
Chapter 6: Language Sensitivity: Can We Speak Freely?
? Hate Speech, Robin Tolmach Lakoff
? Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines, Rosalie Maggio
? Excerpt from Diane Ravitch
? The Word Police, Michiko Kakutani
? "Nigger": The Meaning of a Word, Gloria Naylor
? ? Hate Speech Cannot be Tolerated, Richard Delgado
? There is No Such Thing as Free Speech, Stanley Fish
Chapter 7: The Language Advertising: Words that Sell
? With These Words I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz [
? The Language of Advertising, Charles A. O'Neill
? Be All That You Can Be: The Company
Persona and Language Alignment, Frank Lunt
? ? Visual: Current Advertisements
Chapter 8: Language in Print
? Out of Print, Eric Alterman
? Is Print Dead?, J.A. Konrath
? Are We Reaching Da Youth?, Danny Schechter
? Will the Death of Newspapers Also Kill Our Freedoms?, Frank Watson
? Freedom of Speech and the Editorial Cartoon, Doug Marlette
Visual: Editorial Cartoons
? Piece on cursive writing
? Death of books-libraries with no books
Chapter 9: 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
? Poly-speak. Speechwriting. How to write a great speech.
?