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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 thirteenth 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 nine 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.
List of contents
*Chapter 1: Critical Thinking and Reading
What Is Critical Thinking?
Why Read Critically?
How to Read Critically
Logical Fallacies What They Are and How to Avoid Them
Exploring the Language of Visual Arguments
Analyzing Visual Arguments
*Chapter 2: Critical Writing
Finding Topics to Write About
The General Audience
The Writing Process
Developing Your Ideas
Why Essays Need Supporting Evidence
Forms of Evidence
Some Tips About Supporting Evidence
Structuring Your Essay
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*Chapter 3: Researching Your Papers
Sources of Information
Locating Sources
Evaluating Sources
Drafting Your Paper
Revising and Editing Your Paper
Plagiarism
*Chapter 4 Documentation Guide
Where Does the Documentation Go
Documentation Style
A Brief Guide to MLA and APA Style
Sample Student Research Paper
Chapter 5: The Evolution of Language: Learning to Communicate
From Hand to Mouth, Michael C. Corballis
Language and Thought, Susanne K. Langer
Horton Heared A Who!, Steven Pinker
*Bilingual Mind: Understanding How the Brain Speaks Two Languages, Jeffrey Kluger
*Visual: Four Letter Words
Chunking, Ben Zimmer
Another Language for the Deaf, Margalit Fox &nbs
Summary
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 thirteenth 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 nine 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.
