Contents
- Introduction: Considering Your Own Use of Language
- 1: Language as Argument
- Clyde Haberman, In the Mideast This Year, Even Words Shoot to Kill
- Kendra Hamilton, You Say "Hispanic," I Say "Latino"
- Deborah Tannen, Fighting for Our Lives
- Otto Santa Ana, Immigration as Dangerous Waters: The Power of Metaphor
- Cliff Rothman, A Welcome Mat for Lesbian and Gay Customers, with an album of ads
- wordscanheal.org
- Anna Quindlen, Some Struggles Never Seem to End
- Alice Duer Miller, Why We Oppose Votes for Men
- Michiko Kakutani, Debate? Dissent? Discussion? Oh, Don’t Go There
- 2. How Writing Changes Language: Some Consequences of Literacy
- The Kwestion of Speling
- Richard Lawrence Wade, freespeling.com
- Jody K. Biehl, Crisis of Letters in Germany
- Simon Winchester, Roget and His Brilliant,1 Unrivaled,2 Mailigned,3 and Detestable4 Thesaurus
- Mercedes Benz Playing with Words to Sell Cars
- Punctuation. Period.
- Lewis Thomas, Notes on Punctuation
- Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller, Period Styles: A Punctuated History
- Policing Usage in the Comics
- Robb Armstrong, Jump Start
- Pat Brady, Rose Is Rose
- Mary Newton Bruder, grammarlady.com
- George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
- Jack Rosenthal, So Here’s What’s Happening to Language
- 3. Technology and (versus?) Language
- Dennis Baron, The New Technologies of the Word
- Jennifer 8. Lee, I Think, Therefore IM
- ur2kewl, Romeo
- Jim Borgman and Jerry Scott, Zits
- Bill Amend, Foxtrot
- Roz Chast, The IMs of Romeo and Juliet
- Katie Hafner, Happy Birthday :-) to You: A Smiley Face Turns 20
- Amy Borkowsky, Amy’s Answering Machine
- Why Not Everyone Likes PowerPoint
- Geoffrey Nunberg, The Trouble with PowerPoint
- Clive Thompson, PowerPoint Makes You Dumb
- Technologies and Religious Practices
- Yilu Zhao, Loss of Net Halts an Online Ritual
- Debra Nussbaum Cohen, Hot-synching with a Heavenly Presence
- 4. Multilingual USA
- Hyon B. Shin and Rosalind Bruno, Census 2000 Brief
- Janny Scott, Foreign Born at Record High
- Spanish en Los Estados Unidos
- Marjorie AgosĖn, Always Living in Spanish
- Marjorie AgosĖn, English
- Myriam Marquez, Why and When We Speak Spanish in Public
- Sandra Cisneros, I’d Never Made Love in Spanish before…
- Ana Celia Zentella, The Hows and Whys of Spanglish
- Codeswitching in the Cartoons
- Greg Evans, Luann
- Hector Cant and Carlos Castellanos, Baldo
- Diane Smith, Newcomers Confront Language Melting Pot
- A Host of Other Tongues
- Clyde Haberman, (The Oys of Yiddish: Ignore at Your Peril), with a page from The Cat in the Hat in Yiddish
- Amy Tan, All My Englishes
- Lan Cao, Keeper of the Word
- Hien Nguyen, Memories (Student)
- Monileak Ourng, Negotiating Identity (Student)
- America’s First Languages
- Doug Abrahms, Tribes Struggle to Keep Languages Alive
- Monique Balas, She Remembers So Others Can Learn
- Dorreen Yellow Bird, Keeping the Flame of a Language Alive
- 5. Talking While Black: African American Language in the US
- Patricia Smith, Talking Wrong
- John Rickford, Suite for Ebony and Phonics
- Robb Armstrong, Jump Start
- David D. Troutt, Defining Who We Are in Society
- Michael Erard, Can You Be Discriminated Against Because of the Way You Speak?
- abcnews.com, Linguistic Profiling: A quiz
- John Baugh, Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice
- June Jordan, Nobody Mean More to Me than You, and the Future Life of Willie Jordan
- I Has a Dream: An advertisement
- 6. His / Hers: Language and Gender
- Lynda Willer, Welcome to Your World, Baby
- Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet, Learning to be Gendered
- Linda Wertheimer, Voice Therapy
- Dan Piraro, Bizarro
- Guys, Cars, and Language
- Darryl McGrath, The Return of Girl
- John McWhorter, Missing the Nose on Our Face: Pronouns and the Feminist Revolution
- Sexist Pronouns and Usage Guides
- Andrea Lunsford, from The Everyday Writer
- Maxine Hairston & John Ruszkiewicz, from The Scott-Foresman Handbook
- from The Publication Manual of the APA
- 7. Language in Deaf Communities
- Carol Padden and Tom Humphries, Learning to Be Deaf
- The American Sign Language Fingerspelling Site
- Can’t All Deaf People Read Lips?
- Matthew S. Moore and Linda Levitan, Questions & Answers from Deaf Life
- Greg Evans, Luann
- Andrew Solomon, Defiantly Deaf
- Brenda Jo Brueggemann, Call to A.G. Bell
- 8. Languages and National Identities
- "Tongue troopers": Two Cases from Canada
- DeNeen Brown, Quebec "Tongue Troopers" Defend French
- Andrew Duffy, Nunavut Want Quebec-Style Sign Law
- Native American Images as Team Icons
- Andrea Woo, Polls Apart: A Survey
- Mike Wise, The Squabbling Illini: Rallying Cries Lead to Rift
- Hugh Pope, A Soup of Alphabets Bedevils Azeri
- David W. Chen, Chinese Papers Really Change Direction
- John Miller, English Is Broken Here
- Dennis Baron, Don’t Make English Official—Ban It Instead
- Tom Tomorrow, This Modern World
- Geoffrey Nunberg, Reimagining America
- 9. Globalizing English
- David Crystal, Why a Global Language?
- Beth Duff-Brown, Customer Service Calls to India
- Henry Chu, Taiwan’s Toddlers Learn English
- Derek Zhu, Konglish: It’s Not That Bad
- Shashi Tharoor, Bedeviling Question in the Cadence of English
- John Tagliabue, In Europe, Going Global Means, Alas, English
- Barbara Walraff, What Global Language?
- Glossary
- Rhetorical Table of Contents
- Index
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