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Contents
IntroductionCritical Reading* Critical WritingChapter 1: Language Evolution: Learning to Speak * From Hand to Mouth, Michael C. Corballis * Language and Thought, Susanne K. Langer * Horton Heared A Who!, Steven Pinker * Chunking, Ben Zimmer * Another Language for the Deaf, Margalit Fox * Visual: SignWriting (* Chapter 2: Coming into Language: Personal Recollections* Homemade Education, Malcolm X * A Word for Everything, Helen Keller * Visual: Sign Language * Spanish Lessons, Christine Marin * The Language of Silence, Maxine Hong Kingston * Chapter 3: Say What? Language in Action* 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 * The Like Virus, David Grambs * Why the U.S. Needs an Official Language, Mauro E. Mujica * Why a Global Language?, David Crystal * Lost in America, Douglas McGray Chapter 4: Language and Technology: Forging Connections * In the Beginning Was the Word, Christine Rosen * Texting, David Crystal * Visual: If You Can't Beat 'Em . . . (cartoon) * r u online?: The evolving lexicon of wired teens, Kris Axtman * Three Tweets for the Web, Tyler Cowen * I Tweet, Therefore I Am, Peggy Orenstein Chapter 5: Language Differences: Please Understand Me! * Women Talk Too Much, Janet Holmes * What Language Barrier?, Deborah Cameron * Oh, Mom. Oh, Honey, Deborah Tannen * Nonverbal Behavior, Teri Kwal Gamble & Michael W. Gamble* [Need piece on language anonymity conversation, and debate online] * Small-Scale Communication, Jennifer Akin * Some Friends and I Started Talking, Margaret J. Wheatley * Chapter 6: Language Sensitivity: Can We Speak Freely? * Hate Speech, Robin Tolmach Lakoff * Bias-Free Language: Some Guidelines, Rosalie Maggio * Excerpt from Diane Ravitch* The Word Police, Michiko Kakutani * "Nigger": The Meaning of a Word, Gloria Naylor * * Hate Speech Cannot be Tolerated, Richard Delgado * There is No Such Thing as Free Speech, Stanley FishChapter 7: The Language Advertising: Words that Sell * With These Words I Can Sell You Anything, William Lutz [ * The Language of Advertising, Charles A. O'Neill * Be All That You Can Be: The Company Persona and Language Alignment, Frank Lunt * * Visual: Current Advertisements Chapter 8: Language in Print * Out of Print, Eric Alterman * Is Print Dead?, J.A. Konrath * Are We Reaching Da Youth?, Danny Schechter * Will the Death of Newspapers Also Kill Our Freedoms?, Frank Watson * Freedom of Speech and the Editorial Cartoon, Doug Marlette Visual: Editorial Cartoons * Piece on cursive writing* Death of books-libraries with no booksChapter 9: Political Wordplay * How to Detect Propaganda, Institute for Propaganda Analysis * Doubts About Doublespeak, William Lutz * Politics and the English Language, George Orwell * Fighting Words: The War over Language, Jon Hooten * Poly-speak. Speechwriting. How to write a great speech. *
