Language
Subtitle: a reader for writers
By: Gita DasBender
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780199947485
Subjects: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES; Report writing; Rhetoric; College readers; Composition & Creative Writing; English language
Description: "The Language Reader is part of the Managed Reader Program, which are a cluster of single-topic readers that are brief-to-medium in length and include a short section on rhetorical strategies and research work, as well as writing process, and all of which have a common pedagogy. The readings in these books include global perspectives and non-mainstream sources, and they are a manageable size. The Language Reader is a reader that reflects the central and complex topic of language, as it reflects upon new realities of the multilingual college classroom, and speaks to ideas and issues important to generation 1.5 learners. Developed for the freshman composition course, the reader includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and scientific reading selection; and it gives students with the rhetorical knowledge and compositional skills to participate in discussions about language, learning, and the writing process"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. What is language for?; title: Lera Boroditsky, "How Does Our Language Shape The Way We Think?" Edge; title: Susanne Langer, "Language and Thought" Ms Magazine; title: Arika Okrent, "Body Language" Lapham's Quarterly; title: Anassa Rhenisch, "Alien Languages: Not Human" Science In My Fiction; title: Julie Sedivy, "Is Your Language Making You Broke and Fat? How Language Can Shape Thinking and Behavior (And How It Can't)" Discover; title: 2. Multilingualism; title: Robert Lane Greene, "Which Is The Best Language to Learn?" More Intelligent Life; title: John McWhorter, "Which Languages Should Liberal Arts Be About in 2010?" The New Republic; title: Alexander Arguelles, "Experience: I Can Speak 50 Languages" The Guardian; title: Adam Pulford, "Words are Wind" OUPblog; title: Eddie Dean, "Klingon as a Second Language" Washington City Paper; title: Sarah L. Higley, "Audience, Uglossia, and CONLANG: Inventing Languages on the Internet" Media/Culture Journal; title: 3. Language and Writing; title: Linda Flower, "Writing for an Audience" Problem-Solving Strategies for Writing; title: Emily Badger, "Plain English Urged to Limit Federal Bureaucracy" Pacific Standard; title: Rachel La Corte, "Washington State Sees Results From 'Plain Talk' Initiative" The Olympian; title: Ellen Collett, "The Art of the Police Report" Writer's Chronicle; title: Anne Trubek, "We Are All Writers Now" More Intelligent Life; title: 4. Language and Correctness; title: Robert Lane Greene, "On Language Nerds and Nags" More Intelligent Life; title: Kyle Wiens, "I Won't Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here's Why." Harvard Business Review; title: Sue Shellenbarger, "This Embarrasses You and I*" Wall Street Journal; title: Alison Griswold, "Your Bad Grammar At Work: What's the Problem?" Forbes; title: Linton Weeks, "R Grammar Gaffes Ruining the Language? Maybe Not." National Public Radio; title: Kate Dailey, "Are Language Cops Losing War Against "Wrongly" Used Words?" BBC; title: Robert Lane Greene, "OMG, ETC." More Intelligent Life; title: 5. Language and Gender; title: Jason Davis, "The Soccer Mom" Run of Play; title: Robert Lane Greene, "Hey Dude" More Intelligent Life; title: Wendy Kaminer, "Let's Talk About Gender, Baby" Prospect; title: Amy Reiter, "Why Being a Jerk at Work Pays" The Daily Beast; title: Nathalie Rothschild, "Sweden's New Gender-Neutral Pronoun: Hen" Slate Magazine; title: Mark McCormack, "Don't Call Me Homophobic: The Complexity of 'That's So Gay'" Open Democracy; title: 6. Language and Race; title: James Baldwin, "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" New York Times; title: John McWhorter, "Speaking Swahili for Kwanzaa?" The Root; title: Bassey Ikpi, "Why The Whole 'Poor Africa' Thing Isn't Cool" xoJane; title: Daniel Hernandez, "Spanglish Moves Into Mainstream" Boston Globe; title: Leticia Salais, "Saying 'Adios' to Spanglish" Newsweek; title: Felipe de Ortego y Gasca, "Regarding Spanglish" Newspaper Tree; title: Jaswinder Bolina, "Writing Like a White Guy" Poetry; title: 7. Language and Politics; title: William Lutz, "Doubts About Doublespeak" State of the Language; title: George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" Horizon; title: Alexis Madrigal, "Why Are Spy Researchers Building a 'Metaphor Program'?" The Atlantic; title: Neal Whitman, " 'Kinetic' Connections" Visual Thesaurus; title: Julie Sedivy, "Are You a Mac or a Mac User? How the Language of Identity Persuades" Psychology Today; title: 8. Fighting Words; title: Rebecca Solnit, "When The Media Is the Disaster" Guernica Magazine; title: Susan Benesch, "Words as Weapons" World Policy Journal; title: Julie Sedivy, "Politically Correct Animal Language" Psychology Today; title: Shani Hilton, "The Dirtiest of Words on Capitol Hill: 'Racism'" Colorlines.com; title: Mary Giovagnoli, "'Anchor Baby' Added to New American Heritage Dictionary"; title: "American Heritage Dictionary Redefines 'Anchor Baby' Term as 'Offensive' and 'Disparaging'" Immigration Impact; title: Mark Peters, "Why Personhood is Powerful" Boston Globe; title: 9. The language of globalization; title: Henry Hitchings, "'Conquer English to Make China Strong': The Globalization of English" The Language Wars; title: Julie Traves, "The Church of Please and Thank You." This Magazine; title: Pallavi Polanki, "Operation Mind Your Language" Open Magazine; title: Shehzad Nadeem, "Accent Neutralisation and a Crisis of Identity in India's Call Centres" The Guardian; title: Gloria Gibbons, "Are We All Turning 'Globish"? Pharmaceutical Market Europe; title: Jin Zhao, "Oh My Lady Gaga! This Is So Gelievable!": Chinglish Entering Globish? Things You Don't Know About China; title: 10. Endangered Languages; title: Jonathan Amos, "Digital Tools 'To Save Languages'" BBC; title: Joanna Eede, "You can't Google it and get it back" Survival International; title: Roy Boney, "The Indomitable Language" Indian Country Today; title: Hugo Cardoso, "The Death of An Indian Born Language" Open Magazine; title: Stephen Pax Leonard, "Death by Monoculture" University of Cambridge; title: Russ Rymer, "Vanishing Voices" National Geographic; title: Appendix: Researching and Writing About Language.