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| Rhetorical Contents | ||
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| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| "How to Write with Style" | ||
| 1 | Acquiring Language | 1 |
| "The Day Language Came Into My Life" | 2 | |
| "Dyslexia" | 5 | |
| "The Language Faculty" | 9 | |
| "Genespeak" | 17 | |
| "Reinventions of Human Language" | 23 | |
| "Baby Born Talking - Describes Heaven" | 33 | |
| 2 | Communication Across Species | 51 |
| "Wordy Apes" | 52 | |
| "Conversations with a Gorilla" | 59 | |
| "What I Learned from Nim Chimsky" | 64 | |
| "Language and Thought" | 71 | |
| "How to Say 'Fetch!'" | 76 | |
| Words, Words, Words | 85 | |
| 3 | The Bodily Basis of Language | 97 |
| "Symbolic Action" | 98 | |
| "The Flesh of Language" | 102 | |
| "Anger" | 108 | |
| "The President's Speech" | 123 | |
| "Thinking in Pictures" | 127 | |
| "The Language of Pain" | 131 | |
| "Yellowstone: The Erotics of Place" | 138 | |
| "The Language of Clothes" | 143 | |
| 4 | Can We Talk? | 155 |
| "The Dialogic Imagination" | 156 | |
| "The Social Basis of Talk" | 164 | |
| "Verbal Dueling" | 173 | |
| "Like, Uptalk?" | 178 | |
| "Gurdjieff Remembered" | 182 | |
| "What's Wrong with TV?: Talk Shows" | 186 | |
| "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" | 193 | |
| 5 | Communication Between the Sexes | 213 |
| "Language and Woman's Place" | 214 | |
| "Sex, Lies, and Conversation" | 225 | |
| "Women and the Language of Men" | 231 | |
| "Real Men Don't, or Anti-Male Bias in English" | 243 | |
| "Advertisements for Oneself" | 254 | |
| "Rule #19: Don't Open Up Too Fast" | 258 | |
| "Your First Date" | 261 | |
| 6 | Language Between Cultures | 273 |
| "Salsa x 2" | 274 | |
| "Public and Private Language" | 283 | |
| "Language Lessons" | 288 | |
| "The Language of Discretion" | 291 | |
| "Transformation" | 299 | |
| "What's in a Name?" | 304 | |
| 7 | Many Englishes | 315 |
| "Something About English" | 316 | |
| "The Glamour of Grammar" | 327 | |
| "Jabberwocky" and "Explaining the Meaning of Jabberwocky" | 337 | |
| "From Outside, In" | 340 | |
| "What's in a Name?" | 350 | |
| "Ladyfingers & Nun's Tummies" | 355 | |
| From A Clockwork Orange | 361 | |
| "Listen mr oxford don" | 366 | |
| 8 | The Politics of Everyday Language | 375 |
| "What's in a Name? The Ideology of Cultural Classification" | 376 | |
| "The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition" | 385 | |
| "Sexism in English: A 1990s Update" | 390 | |
| "AIDS and Its Metaphors" | 400 | |
| "The Word Police" | 412 | |
| "Old Age Needs a New Name, But Don't Look for It in Webster's" | 417 | |
| "The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society" | 422 | |
| "Little Red Riding Hood" | 430 | |
| 9 | The Rhetoric of Advertising | 441 |
| "The Hard Sell: Advertising in America" | 442 | |
| "Ways of Seeing" | 454 | |
| "The Rhetoric of Advertising" | 463 | |
| From The Beauty Myth | 478 | |
| "Beauty and the Beast of Advertising" | 486 | |
| "Sprayed and Neutered" | 490 | |
| 10 | The Language of Politics | 499 |
| "Politics and the English Language" | 500 | |
| "Analyzing the Rhetoric of Nixon's 'Checkers Speech'" | 512 | |
| "The Gettysburg Address" | 519 | |
| "Propaganda Under a Dictatorship" | 528 | |
| "I Have a Dream" | 534 | |
| "Eulogy for a Princess" | 539 | |
| "How to Watch TV News" | 543 | |
| 11 | Cybertalk | 555 |
| "The Haves and the Have-Nots" | 556 | |
| "Into the Electronic Millennium" | 560 | |
| "Return to Sender" | 570 | |
| "Women and Computers: Is There Equity in Cyberspace?" | 575 | |
| "The Electronic Palimpsest" | 586 | |
| "How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students' Research Papers" | 595 | |
| "Christmas Unplugged" | 598 | |
| "The Personal Touch" | 601 | |
| Glossary of Rhetorical and Linguistic Terms | 611 | |
| Index of Authors and Titles | 619 | |
| Index | 622 |
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David King
reviewed Reflections on Language on November 20, 2016
Reflections on Language
Read for APLING 601 - very helpful in writing my big paper that semester
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