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Goshgarian,  Exploring Language, 12/E

• 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.

• Approximately 34 new selections, including such notable authors as Michael Corballis, Steven Pinker, and Julia Ortiz Cofer.
• A new cluster of readings in Chapter 1 called “Preserving Voices: Defending Native Languages.”
• A new cluster of readings in Chapter 4 called “Warspeak: Language and Conflict” with readings that touch on the language that we use to talk about terrorism, and the semantics of war.
• Also in Chapter 4, a revised section on Language and the Presidency, with an examination on presidential rhetoric and political language.
• An expanded section on He Says, She Says: Gender Differences in Discourse in Chapter 5, examining conversational differences between men and women.
• An almost entirely new Chapter 8: The English Language Debate, with an all new cluster of readings on “What Does How We Speak Say About Us?” with selections that touch on the use of words such as “whatever” or “like” in everyday talk, on IM (instant messaging) language, on Spanglish, on Ebonics, and more.
• 50% new visuals throughout the book.

Preface

INTRODUCTION: THINKING AND READING CRITICALLY

What Is Critical Thinking?

Why Read Critically

How to Read Critically

Critical Reading in Action–Sample Essay for Analysis

Logical Fallacies

Exploring the Language of Visuals

1. LANGUAGE AND HISTORY

Beginnings: The Development of Language

            The Tower of Babel (visual)

            From Hand to Mouth (Michael C. Corballis)

            Language and Thought (Langer)

            Brief History of English (Roberts)

            Horton Heared a Who! (Steven Pinker)

            Another Language for the Deaf (Fox)

            Signwriting (visual)

Preserving Voices: Defending Native Languages

            Speaking in Tongues (James Geary)

            Lost in Translation (Soo Ji Minn)

            Tribal Talk (Michelle Nijhuis)

            Say No More (Jack Hitt)

            Let Them Die (Kenan Malik)

            International Mother Language Day (visual)

2. THE POWER OF LANGUAGE

Personal Recollections: Coming to Language

            Homemade Education (Malcolm X)

            A Word for Everything (Keller)

            American Sign Language (visual)

            My Yiddish (Leonard Michaels)   

            Language of Silence (Kingston)

            Spanish Lessons (Marin)

            A Child’s First Story (visual)

Speaking Out: Language that Inspired Change

            Seneca Falls Declaration (Stanton)

            Letter from Birmingham Jail (King)

            Ain’t I a Woman? (Truth)

            Struggle for Human Rights (Roosevelt)

            Sanger Silenced (visual)

            Afghanistan Woman Silenced (visual)

3. WRITERS WRITING 

The Writing Process

            Writing for an Audience (Flower)

            Getting Started (Lamott)

            What My Students Have Taught Me About Writing  (Childers)

            Forget Ideas, Mr. Author. What Kind of Pen Do you Use? (Stephen Fry)

            The Secret Lives of Fonts (text with visuals)

Finding the Right Words

            Case for Short Words (Lederer)

            Saying is Believing (O’Connor)

            How to Write with Style (Vonnegut)

            Always Living in Spanish (Marjorie Agosin)

            Cliché’s Anyone (Isaacs)

            Top Business Clichés (Jonathan Clements)

4. POLITICAL WORDPLAY

Politically Speaking

            How to Detect Propaganda (The Institute for Propaganda Analysis)

            Politics and the English Language (George Orwell)

            The Pep Talk (Hugh Rank)

            Doubts About Doublespeak (William Lutz)

            Answer the &$%#* Question! (Trudy Lieberman)

            Political Campaign ads (visual)

Case Study: Warspeak: Language and Conflict

            Fighting Words: The War Over Language (John Hooten)

            Terrorism and the English Language (Deroy Murdock)

            Semantics of Murder (Amir Taheri)

            A True Jihad? (Jim Guirard)

            Selling America (Sandra Silberstein)

            American's Stand United, AAI Advertisement (visual)

Language and the Presidency

            The Rhetorical Presidency (Denton/Hahn)

            A Nation of Victims (Renana Brooks)

            The Making of the Speech (DT Max)

            President George W. Bush Discusses Global War on Terror

            Why JFK’s Speech Succeeded (Thurston Clarke)

            President John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 (JFK) (photos of JFK’s inaugural address.)

5. DO YOU KNOW WHAT I’M SAYING?

He Says, She Says: Gender Differences in Discourse

            Women Talk Too Much (Janet Holmes)

            No Detail is Too Small for Girls (Tony Kornheiser)

            Sex Differences (Ronald Maculay)

            Men Are from Belgium, Women Are from New Brunswick (visual)

            He and She: What's the Real Difference? (Clive Thompson)

            The Party Line  (Rachel Rafelman)

            I'll Explain It to You: Lecturing and Listening (Deborah Tannen)

Let's Talk About It: Conversation In Action

            The Social Basis of Talk (Ronald Wardhaugh)

            Some Friends and I Started Talking (Margaret J Wheatley)

            The Like Virus (David Grambus)

            “Languaculture” (Michael H. Agar)

            The Other Side of E-Mail (Robert Kuttner)

            r u online?  (Kris Axtman) (text and visual)

6. MEDIA SPEAK

As Heard On TV

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

            Fake TV News? (Diane Farsetta and Daniel Price)

            TV News Slogans (visual)

            Is Bad Language Unacceptable on TV? (BBC “Talking Point Forum”)

            Taking a 'War of Words' Too Literally (Deborah Tannen)

            The Entertained Culture (Tom Shachtman)

            Stamp Out Fadspeak (Richard Lederer)

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)

            We Know What You Want (Martin Howard)

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

            Sample ads (visual)

7. CENSORSHIP AND FREE SPEECH

Censorship and Books

            The Freedom to Read (The American Library Association)

            The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2005 (inset)

            Book Banning, Real and Imaginary (Jeff Jacoby)

            Is Harry Potter Evil? (Judy Blume)

            Exploring the Language of Visuals: Huckleberry Finn Banned!

            Author's Afterword from Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

Biased Language and Hate Speech

            Hate Speech (Robin Tomach Lakoff)

            Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines (Rosalie Maggio)

            The Word Police (Michiko Kakutani)

            Crimes Against Humanity (Ward Churchill)

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

Case Study: Free Speech on Campus

            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)

            A Free Speech Firestorm (Scott Smallwood)

            Shrinking Free Speech Zones (Rachel Gillett)

            Free Speech cartoon (Zachary Parker)

8. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEBATE

What Is “Standard English”?

            All American Dialects (Richard Lederer)

            Do You Speak American (Robert MacNeil)

            Why Good English Is Good for You (John Simon)

            Everyone Has An Accent but Me (John Esling)

            Good English and Bad (Bill Bryson)

Should English Be the Official Language of the USA?

            English Should Be the Only Language (SI Hayakawa)

            Proposal for an American Language Academy (John Adams) (boxed)

            And May He Be Bilingual (Julia Ortiz Cofer)

            The Overwhelming Allure of English (Gregory Rodriguez)

Case Study: What Does How We Speak Say About Us?

            It’s So Totally Cool, or Whatever (Meghan Cox Gordon)

            Poem: Totally like whatever, you know? (Taylor Mali) (sidebar)

            What Does Your Speech Reveal? (Carmen Fought)

            Nu Shortcuts in School R 2 Much 4 Teachers (Jennifer Lee)

            The Gravitas of Spanglish (Ilan Stavans)

            Ebonics: Defining Who We Are in Society (David Dante Troutt)

            Barring The Gates Of Language (John Fought)

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