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Exploring Language, 12/E
Gary J GoshgarianNortheastern University

ISBN-10: 0205672663
ISBN-13:  9780205672660

Publisher:  Longman
Copyright:  2010
Format:  Paper; 592 pp
Published:  02/19/2009


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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 eleventh 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 eight 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.


Features

  • Chapter themes, such as “Censorship and Free Speech” (Ch. 7) and “Language of the Mass Media and Advertising” (Ch. 6), reflect the wide spectrum of language issues affecting our contemporary culture.
  • “Exploring the Language of Visuals” sections throughout provide graphics such as photographs, cartoons, posters, print ads, email messages, signs, and a book cover for students to analyze critically and discuss.
  • Some chapters feature case studies with tightly focused readings on a particular issue or event. For example, the case study in Chapter 4 focuses on the language and rhetoric of war and the one in Chapter 8 focuses on spoken language.
  • A headnote containing useful thematic and biographical information precedes each reading, and analytical questions follow each essay, while “Making Connections” exercises, and library and Internet research questions conclude each chapter.


New To This Edition

  • Offers a substantial number of new readings (approximately 40%), and many of them have been written in the past few years.
  • Explores our rapidly changing global culture and economy with a new cluster of readings on “English as a Global Language” within Chapter 3, “What’s the Word?  A World of Language”.  These new readings provide a fascinating new perspective on the intersections of politics and language.
  • Examines the ways in which technologies mediate and enhance–or obscure–communication and meaning in a wholly new Chapter 4, “Technology and Language”.
  • In an era when students often turn to satirists and comedians for their news, we’ve reinstated the popular chapter on humor, Chapter 6.
  • The organization has been streamlined for more in-depth exploration of specific, timely themes within each chapter’s broader topic.
  • Adding to a diverse assortment of genres, several historical pieces and great speeches that have influenced our culture and society have been added to this edition. 


Table of Contents

Introduction

Critical Thinking

 

1. Breaking Silences    

Beginnings: Evolution of Language

Visual: Tower of Babel

From Hand to Mouth (Michael C. Corballis)

Language and Thought (Susanne K. Langer)

Horton Heared a Who! (Steven Pinker)

Another Language for the Deaf (Margalit Fox)

Visual: SignWriting

Speaking in Tongues (James Geary)

How Do You Learn a Dead Language? (Cynthia Cyr)

Personal Recollections: Coming into Language                

Homemade Education (Malcolm X)     

A Word for Everything (Helen Keller)  

Visual: American Sign Language           

My Yiddish (Leonard Michaels)           

Spanish Lessons (Christine Marin)       

Language of Silence (Maxine Hong Kingston)  

Visual: A Child’s First Story

 

2. Writers on Writing

The Writing Process

Writing for an Audience (Linda Flower)

Getting Started (Anne Lamott)

Computers Invite a Tangled Web of Complications (P.J. O’Rourke)

Writing to Change the World (Mary Piper)

Visual: The Secret Lives of Fonts         

On Good Writing (John Leo)

Finding the Right Words                 

The Case for Short Words (Richard Lederer)

Saying is Believing (Patricia T. O’Connor)

Cliché’s Anyone (James Isaacs)

Selection, Slanting and Charged Language (Newman P. Birk & Genevieve B. Birk)

 

3. A World of Language

What Is “American” English?

Do You Speak American (Robert MacNeil)

Everyone Has an Accent but Me (John Esling)

Good English and Bad (Bill Bryson)

Why the U.S. Needs an Official Language (Mauro E. Mujica)

And May He Be Bilingual (Julia Ortiz Cofer)

English as a Global Language

Why a Global Language? (David Crystal)

What Global Language? (Barbara Walraff)

Not the Queen’s English (Carla Power)

Lost in America (Douglas McGray)

 

4. Technology and Language

Making Connections in a Modern World

Is PowerPoint the Devil? (Julia Keller)

Visual: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in PowerPoint, (Peter Norvig)

The Making of the Gettysburg PowerPoint Presentation (Peter Norvig)

Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissim (Christine Rosen)

Virtually Trustworthy (Judith Donath)

Virtually Speaking

Texting (David Crystal)

r u online? (Kris Axtman)

Thx for the IView! I Wud ♥ 2 Work 4 U!! ;) (Sarah E. Needleman)

The Other Side of E-Mail (Robert Kuttner)

Blogging in the Global Lunchroom (Geoffrey Nunberg)

 

5. The Communication Gap: How We Speak to Each Other

He Says/She Says
Women Talk Too Much (Janet Holmes)

No Detail is Too Small (Tony Korheiser)

Sex Differences (Ronald Maculay)

Right-Through Stare (Aletheia Plankiw)

“I’ll Explain it To You” Lecturing and Listening  (Deborah Tannen)

Visual: Men Are from Belgium, Women Are from New Brunswick

What We Say and How We Say It

Nonverbal Behavior: Culture, Gender, and the Media (Kwal Gamble and Gamble)

Small-Scale Communication (Jennifer Akin)

The Like Virus (David Grambs)

Some Friends and I Started Talking (Margaret J.Wheatley)

Speaking Personally (John Guinan)

 

6. The Language of Humor: What Makes Us Laugh

What’s Funny?

Outsiders/Insiders (Joseph Boskin)

Laughter's New Profile (Lorraine Ali)

Why Black Humor is So Black (Wil Haygood)

What’s So Funny? (Regina Barreca)

Funny Box: Editorial Cartoons
What Is a Cartoon?  (Mort Goldberg)

Visuals: Sample Cartoons

Freedom of Speech and the Editorial Cartoon? (Doug Marlette)

Defiantly Incorrect: Humor of John Callahan (Timothy Egan)

Visual: Callahan Cartoon “Wheelchair Posse”

7. Language and the Media

The Language of Advertising

With These Words I Can Sell You Anything (William Lutz)

The Language of Advertising (Charles A O'Neill)

Language Abuse (Herschell Gordon Lewis)

How Tobacco Company "Anti-Smoking" Ads Appeal to Teens (Carrie McLaren)

Visual: Current Advertisements

In Your Living Room: Language in Popular Media

TV News: All the World in Pictures (Neil Postman and Steve Powers)

Are We Losing Da Youth? (Danny Schechter)

Letting Words Fly (John T. McWhorter)

Is Bad Language Unacceptable on TV? (BBC Online)

Taking TV’s 'War of Words' Too Literally (Deborah Tannen)

 

8. Censorship and Free Speech

Biased Language and Hate Speech

Hate Speech (Robin Tomach Lakoff)

Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines (Rosalie Maggio)

The Word Police (Michiko Kakutani)

Visual: Depictions of the Cleveland Indians’ mascot Chief Wahoo

“Nigger” The Meaning of a Word (Gloria Naylor)

A Note on “Ho” (Michael Geis)

Censorship and Free Speech

The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (Alan C Kors)

Regulating Racist Speech on Campus (Charles Lawrence III)

There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing, Too (Stanley Fish)

Hate Cannot Be Tolerated (Richard Delgado)

Visual: Free Speech Zone (Zachary Parker)

 

9. Political Wordplay

Politically Speaking

How to Detect Propaganda (Institute for Propaganda Analysis)

Doubts about Doublespeak (William Lutz)

Visual: 24/7 Cartoon

Thirty Second Democracy: Campaign Advertising and American Elections (Paul Freedman)

Visual: Presidential Television Ads

Fighting Words (Jon Hooten)   

Semantics of Murder (Amir Taheri)

Speaking Out: Language that Inspired Change                 

Letter from Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King, Jr)    

Aren’t I a Woman? (Sojourner Truth)

Struggle for Human Rights (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Visual: Margaret Sanger Silenced

Nobel Lecture on Global Warming

 

Credits

Index of Authors and Titles

 


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  • Exploring Language, 11/E
    Goshgarian
    ©2007  |  Longman  |  Paper; 608 pp  |  Out of Print
    ISBN-10: 0321457978  |  ISBN-13: 9780321457974
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  • Exploring Language, 13/E
    Goshgarian
    ©2012  |  Longman  |  Paper; 560 pp  |  Instock
    ISBN-10: 0205172865  |  ISBN-13: 9780205172863
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