TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hirschberg,Stuart
AU  - Hirschberg,Terry
TI  - Reflections on language
SN  - 9780195120448
AV  - P106.H669.R445 1999 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Language and languages
N1  - 1 and indexes; 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; 2
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