Reflections on language / Stuart Hirschberg, Terry Hirschberg. [print]

part 1. Acquiring language. "The Day Language Came Into My Life" / Helen Keller -- "Dyslexia" / Eileen Simpson -- "The language faculty" / Noam Chomsky -- "Genespeak" / Jay Ingram -- "Reinventions of human language" / Jared Diamond -- "Baby born talking-describes heaven" / Steven Pinker -- pt. 2. Communication across species. "Wordy apes" / Donald R. Griffin -- "Conversations with a gorilla" / Francine Patterson -- "What I learned from Nim Chimsky" / Herbert S. Terrace -- "Language and thought" / Susanne K. Langer -- "How to say 'fetch!'" / Vicki Hearne -- Words, words, words David Ives -- pt. 3. The bodily basis of language. "Symbolic action" / Kenneth Burke -- "The flesh of language" / David Abram -- "Anger" / George Lakoff -- "The president's speech" / Oliver Sacks -- "Thinking in pictures" / Temple Grandin -- "The language of pain" / Richard Selzer -- "Yellowstone: The erotics of place" / Terry Tempest Williams -- "The language of clothes" / Alison Lurie -- pt.4. Can we talk? "The dialogic imagination" / Mikhail M. Bakhtin -- "The social basis of talk" / Ronald Wardhaugh -- "Verbal dueling" / Peter Farb -- "Like, uptalk?" / James Gorman -- "Gurdjieff remembered" / Fritz Peters -- "What's wrong with TV?: talk shows" / Tom Shachtman -- "What we talk about when we talk about love" / Raymond Carver -- pt. 5. Communication between the sexes. "Language and woman's place" / Robin Lakoff -- "Sex, lies, and conversation" / Deborah Tannen -- "Women and the language of men" / Jane Tompkins -- "Real men don't, or anti-male bias in English" / Eugene R. August -- "Advertisements for oneself" / Lance Morrow -- "Rule #19: don't open up too fast" / Sherrie Schneider and Ellen Fein -- "Your first date" / Linda Stasi -- pt. 6. Language between cultures. "Salsa x 2" / Enrique Fernandez -- "Public and private language" / Richard Rodriguez -- "Language lessons" / Sarah Min -- "The language of discretion" / Amy Tan -- "Transformation" / Lydia Minatoya -- "What's in a name?" / David A. Ricks -- pt. 7. Many Englishes. "Something about English" / Paul Roberts -- "The Glamour of grammar" / Julia Penelope -- "Jabberwocky" and "explaining the meaning of jabberwocky" / Lewis Carroll -- "From outside, in" / Barbara Mellix -- "What's in a name?" / Itabari Njeri -- "Ladyfingers & nun's tummies" / Martha Barnette -- "From a clockwork orange" / Anthony Burgess -- "Listen mr oxford don" / John Agard -- pt. 8. The politics of everyday language. "What's in a name? the ideology of cultural classification" / Jack Solomon -- "The classroom and the wider culture: identity as a key to learning English composition" / Fan Shen -- "Sexism in English: a 1990s update" / Alleen Pace Nilsen -- "AIDS and its metaphors" / Susan Sontag -- "The word police" / Michiko Kakutani -- "Old age needs a new name, but don't look for it in Webster's" / Frank Nuessel -- "The human cost of an illiterate society" / Jonathan Kozol -- "Little red riding hood" / James Finn Garner -- pt. 9. The rhetoric of advertising. "The hard sell: advertising in America" / Bill Bryson -- "Ways of seeing" / John Berger -- "The rhetoric of advertising" / Stuart Hirschberg -- "From the beauty myth" / Naomi Wolf -- "Beauty and the beast of advertising" / Jean Kilbourne -- "Sprayed and neutered" / Susan Irvine -- pt. 10. The language of politics. "Politics and the English language" / George Orwell -- "Analyzing the rhetoric of Nixon's 'checkers speech'" / Stuart Hirschberg -- "The Gettysburg Address" / Gilbert Highet -- "Propaganda under a dictatorship" / Aldous Huxley -- "I have a dream" / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- "Eulogy for a princess" / Earl Charles Spencer -- "How to watch TV news" / Neil Postman and Steve Powers -- pt. 11. Cybertalk. "The haves and the have-nots" / LynNell Hancock -- "Into the electronic millennium" / Sven Birkerts -- "Return to sender" / David Angell and Brent Heslop -- "Women and computers: is there equity in cyberspace?" / Paul Span -- "The Electronic palimpsest" / Brian Hayes -- "How the web destroys the quality of students' research papers" / David Rothenberg -- "Christmas unplugged" / Amy Bruckman -- "The personal touch" / Chet Williamson.

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