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This market-leading language reader features thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society.
Synopsis
This market-leading language reader features thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Breaking Silences
BEGINNINGS: THE 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
Visual: Gimme a Cookie (cartoon)
Chunking
Ben Zimmer
Another Language for the Deaf
Margalit Fox
Visual: Signwriting
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS: COMING INTO LANGUAGE
Homemade Education
Malcolm X
A Word for Everything
Helen Keller
Visual: Sign Language
Spanish Lessons
Christine Marin
Chapter 2: Writers on Writing
THE WRITING PROCESS
Writing for an Audience
Linda Flower
Getting Started
Anne Lamott
Beware the Trap of 'Bore-geous' Writing
Ayelet Waldman
Writing to Change the World
Mary Pipher
FINDING THE RIGHT WORDS
The Case for Short Words
Richard Lederer
Saying Is Believing
Patricia T. O’Conner
Cliché’s Anyone?
James Isaacs
Visual: Writing Well (cartoon)
Selection, Slanting and Charged Language
Newman P. Birk and Genevieve B. Birk
Chapter 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 Good English Is Good For You
John Simon
Why the U.S. Needs an Official Language
Mauro E. Mujica
ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE
Why a Global Language?
David Crystal
Visual: English and Globish (cartoon)
What Global Language?
Barbara Wallraff
English as a Global