What's Language Got to Do with It?
Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2005
- First Edition
- Softcover
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Very Good++ lightly rubbed and bumped trade paperback. INSTRUCTOR'S EDITION, with 80 page "Instructor's Guide" following 585 pages of regular edition text.
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- Title
- What's Language Got to Do with It?
- Author
- Keith Walters; Michal Brody
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393978842
- ISBN 13
- 9780393978841
- Edition
- 1st Edition
In the Mideast, words shoot to kill. On the pages of the New Yorker, Romeo IMs Juliet. In India, operators in customer service call centers are required to speak English with an American accent and to be able to make small talk about the Super Bowl. Closer to home, ABC News offers up a linguistic profiling quiz. And George Orwell continues to lament the state of politics and the English language.
This is just some of what you’ll find in What’s Language Got to Do with It?, a thought-provoking new reader that introduces some of the most important language issues facing us today―and prompts students to think hard about their own use of language."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Michal Brody is a linguist, independent scholar, and lecturer. She was a founding faculty member of the Universidad de Oriente in Yucatán, Mexico. She has taught language-related courses in the Departments of English, Communication Studies, and MATESOL at San Francisco State University and Sonoma State University. Her scholarly work centers on language pedagogy and politics in the United States and Mexico. She’s the author (with Keith Walters) of What’s Language Got to Do with It? and coauthor (with Richard Bullock and Francine Weinberg) of The Little Seagull Handbook, and has been a contributor to LetsTalkLibrary, Everyone’s an Author Tumblr site and They Say / I Blog.
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