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Exploring Language
ISBN: 9780673523495 | 0673523497
Edition: 7thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date: 1/1/1995
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| Preface | p. xvii |
| Introduction: Thinking and Reading Critically | p. 1 |
| What Is Critical Thinking? | p. 1 |
| Why Read Critically | p. 2 |
| How to Read Critically | p. 3 |
| Critical Reading in Action--Sample Essay for Analysis | p. 6 |
| The Selling of Rebellion | p. 10 |
| Logical Fallacies--What They Are and How to Avoid Them | p. 18 |
| Logical Fallacies | p. 19 | ... MORE
| Exploring the Language of Visuals | p. 21 |
| Some Useful URLs on Writing and Language | p. 22 |
| Breaking Silences | p. 24 |
| Beginnings: Moving from Silence into Language | p. 26 |
| Language and Thought | p. 26 |
| A Brief History of English | p. 31 |
| The Story of Writing | p. 41 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: Sign Language | p. 51 |
| Personal Recollections: Coming into Language | p. 53 |
| Homemade Education | p. 53 |
| A Word for Everything | p. 56 |
| The Language of Silence | p. 61 |
| Spanish Lessons | p. 67 |
| Case Study: Women Breaking Silences--A Historical Survey | p. 74 |
| Seneca Falls Declaration | p. 74 |
| Aren't I a Woman? | p. 78 |
| Women Compelled to Prove Themselves | p. 80 |
| Professions for Women | p. 83 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: Rosie the Riveter | p. 88 |
| Claiming an Education | p. 89 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: The Guerrilla Girls | p. 94 |
| Writers Writing: Words in Contexts | p. 97 |
| The Writing Process | p. 99 |
| Freewriting | p. 99 |
| Writing for an Audience | p. 105 |
| The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscript | p. 108 |
| Finding the Right Words | p. 113 |
| Simplicity | p. 113 |
| How to Write with Style | p. 119 |
| Why "Techies" Need to Know How to Write | p. 123 |
| Cliches, Anyone? | p. 132 |
| Wired Language | p. 135 |
| Language and the Internet | p. 137 |
| The Other Side of E-Mail | p. 137 |
| Internet Changes Language for:-) and :-( | p. 139 |
| The Internet ... Good News or Bad Language | p. 143 |
| Identity and Self Online | p. 146 |
| The Virtual Community | p. 146 |
| Can a Body Meet a Body Coming Through the Wire? | p. 152 |
| Identity in the Age of the Internet | p. 155 |
| Internet Spanglish | p. 162 |
| The Language of Humor: What Makes Us Laugh | p. 166 |
| What's Funny? | p. 168 |
| Outsiders/Insiders | p. 168 |
| Holocaust Humor | p. 178 |
| Chris Rock: Seriously Funny | p. 184 |
| In Answer to the Question: Have You Ever Considered Suicide? | p. 188 |
| Excerpt from The LA LA Awards | p. 190 |
| Case Study: Cartoons and Comic Strips | p. 198 |
| What Is a Cartoon? | p. 199 |
| Defiantly Incorrect: The Humor of John Callahan | p. 203 |
| Editorial Cartoonist--An Endangered Species? | p. 208 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: Sample Cartoons | p. 213 |
| Politically Speaking | p. 219 |
| Political Word Play | p. 221 |
| How to Detect Propaganda | p. 221 |
| Politics and the English Language | p. 227 |
| Doubts About Doublespeak | p. 238 |
| Changing the Language of Sex Crimes Against Children | p. 242 |
| Case Study: GunSpeak--Political Pundits and the Public on Youth Violence in America | p. 246 |
| Political Pundits Speak Out | p. 247 |
| The Erosion of Empathy | p. 247 |
| An Issue Beyond Ideology | p. 249 |
| Missing the Mark | p. 251 |
| Behind the School Shooting | p. 254 |
| Stop Blaming Kids and TV | p. 257 |
| The Public Speaks Out | p. 261 |
| Lessons of Littleton | p. 261 |
| Not Gun Shy | p. 263 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: Anti-Gun Protest | p. 269 |
| The Language of Mass Media and Advertising | p. 272 |
| The Language of Mass Media | p. 275 |
| Yadda, Yadda, Yadda | p. 275 |
| Freedom to Talk Dirty | p. 278 |
| TV News: All the World in Pictures | p. 281 |
| Hurry Healing | p. 288 |
| The Infatuation with Foul Language | p. 291 |
| Two-Headed Monsters | p. 299 |
| The Language of Advertising | p. 301 |
| With These Words I Can Sell You Anything | p. 301 |
| The Language of Advertising | p. 315 |
| "Hey, Kids, Buy This!" | p. 326 |
| Get Out of My Face! The Use of Coarse Language in Advertising | p. 333 |
| Exploring The Language of Visuals: Three Sample Ads | p. 339 |
| Censorship and Free Speech | p. 346 |
| Censorship and Free Speech on Campus | p. 348 |
| Regulating Racist Speech on Campus | p. 348 |
| The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses | p. 353 |
| In Praise of Censure | p. 360 |
| Censorship and Free Speech in Cyberspace | p. 365 |
| The Internet: A Clear and Present Danger? | p. 365 |
| What Part of "NO Law" Don't You Understand? | p. 370 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: Watching the Web | p. 378 |
| See No Evil, Surf No Evil | p. 380 |
| Censorship and Free Speech in Books | p. 383 |
| The Freedom to Read | p. 383 |
| Banned Books Week 1997: A Case of Misrepresentation | p. 387 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: Huckleberry Finn Banned! | p. 390 |
| Author's Afterword from Fahrenheit 451 | p. 393 |
| He Says/She Says | p. 397 |
| Do Men and Women Speak the Same Language? | p. 399 |
| Sex Differences | p. 399 |
| "I'll Explain It to You": Lecturing and Listening | p. 405 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: Roz Chast on Gender and Language | p. 419 |
| The Mask of Masculinity | p. 421 |
| Nonverbal Behavior: Culture, Gender, and the Media | p. 424 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: Body Language | p. 428 |
| Is English Sexually Biased? | p. 431 |
| Introduction to the A-Z of Non-Sexist Language | p. 431 |
| Gender Benders | p. 436 |
| Life as a Female Gentleman | p. 439 |
| Real Men Don't: Anti-Male Bias in English | p. 444 |
| The Language of Labeling | p. 457 |
| Slurs and Stereotypes | p. 459 |
| "Nigger": The Meaning of a Word | p. 459 |
| The Etymology of the International Insult | p. 463 |
| Crimes Against Humanity | p. 467 |
| Growing Up Asian in America | p. 475 |
| Queer | p. 482 |
| Case Study: Political Correctness | p. 486 |
| Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines | p. 487 |
| The Word Police | p. 498 |
| In the Canon, for All the Wrong Reasons | p. 503 |
| Beware the Advozealots: Mindless Good Intentions Injure the Handicapped | p. 507 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: Callahan Cartoon | p. 511 |
| What Is the Language of the American People? | p. 514 |
| What Is "Standard" English? | p. 516 |
| Good English and Bad | p. 516 |
| Why Good English Is Good for You | p. 525 |
| Not White, Just Right | p. 535 |
| On Not Writing in English | p. 538 |
| What's Not "Standard" English?--Slang and Jargon | p. 542 |
| It Ain't No Big Thing | p. 542 |
| Dangerous Dozens | p. 549 |
| It's, Like, Extreme, But Not Gross | p. 553 |
| Words of Wisdom | p. 557 |
| Case Study: English Only or Bilingualism? | p. 562 |
| Bilingualism in America: English Should Be the Only Language | p. 562 |
| Exploring the Language of Visuals: "Please Do Not Feed Pigeons" | p. 568 |
| My Spanish Standoff | p. 570 |
| Let's Not Say Adios to Bilingual Education | p. 572 |
| Photo and Text Credits | p. 578 |
| Index of Authors and Titles | p. 583 |
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