| Ch. 10 Language | ||
| Amy Tan, Mother Tongue | ||
| • | [text & video] http://www.achievement.org/achiever/amy-tan/#interview | |
| An interview with Amy Tan about her family and upbringing, as well as their effect on her writing. Video clips included. | ||
| • | [text] http://uncgengtas.wikispaces.com/file/view/Tan_The+Language+of+Discretion.pdf | |
| This essay is often paired with Mother Tongue. In it, Amy Tan talks about how language shapes culture and thought. | ||
| George Orwell, Politics and the English Language | ||
| • | [text] http://orwell.ru/library/novels/1984/english/en_app | |
| George Orwell’s “The Principles of Newspeak.” An appendix in the novel 1984 that outlines the rules and theories behind the fictional language of Newspeak. | ||
| Walt Whitman, Slang in America | ||
| • | [text] http://www.pbs.org/speak/words/sezwho/slang/ | |
| PBS-sponsored article on slang that directly references Walt Whitman’s Slang in America. | ||
| Marjorie Agosin, Always Living in Spanish | ||
| • | [text] http://interlitq.org/issue3/marjorie_agosin/job.php | |
| “Here I Dreamed of Myself,” “Blue Nostalgia,” and other poems by Marjorie Agosin. | ||
| Charles Krauthammer, In Plain English: Let’s Make It Official | ||
| • | [text] http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/03/se.01.html | |
| Transcript of June 3, 2007 Democratic debate. English as the official language of the U.S. emerged as a topic of debate. (Search “I want you to raise your hand if you believe English should be the official language of the United States.”) | ||
| Naomi Shihab Nye, For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15 and Why I Could Not Accept Your Invitation | ||
| • | [video] http://www.poetrystation.org.uk/poems/for-mohammed-zeid-of-gaza-age-15/ | |
| Naomi Shihad Nye reads For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15 | ||
| U.S. Census Bureau, Language Use in the United States (tables) | ||
| • | [text] http://www.pewhispanic.org/2012/04/04/when-labels-dont-fit-hispanics-and-their-views-of-identity/ | |
| Article that explores language use amongst Hispanics in the U.S. | ||
| Institute for Propaganda Analysis, How to Detect Propaganda | ||
| • | [text] http://www.crestock.com/blog/design/the-evolution-of-propaganda-design-us-retro-posters-122.aspx | |
| A collection of U.S. propaganda posters from the two world wars and the Great Depression. | ||
| • | [website] http://www.propagandacritic.com/ | |
| A website dedicated to critical propaganda analysis. | ||
| Michiko Kakutani, The Word Police | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/09/books/books-of-the-times-a-dictionary-to-offend-no-one-but-a-purist.html | |
| Michiko Kakutani reviews the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary, which includes an appendix entitled “Avoiding Sexist Language” | ||
| • | [text] http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-12-22/news/1991356027_1_hauck-random-house-college-dictionary | |
| Additional response to the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary’s politically-correct tone. | ||
| Mike Lester, NCAA Native American Mascots (cartoon) | ||
| • | [website] http://www.mikelester.com/comics.html | |
| Cartoonist’s personal website; contains information, cartoons gallery, and community interfaces. | ||
| • | [text] https://mic.com/articles/2104/team-mascots-should-raise-morale-not-create-racial-tension#.ElkiF2vB5 | |
| Article about the tensions caused by racist sports mascots. | ||
| Geoffrey Nunberg, How Much Wallop Can a Simple Word Pack [2004] | ||
| [audio, video, text] http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gwbush911addresstothenation.htm | ||
| President Bush’s address to the nation on 9/11 declaring “war against terrorism.” | ||
| Daniel Okrent, The War of Words | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/business/media/29asktheeditors.html?pagewanted=6&_r=1 | |
| Deputy news editor for the New York Times responds to readers’ questions about fairness and impartiality in terminology and overall news reporting. | ||
| pg 6/13, “Fairness and Impartiality” | ||
| http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/business/media/29asktheeditors.html?pagewanted=7&_r=1 | ||
| pg 7/13, “Fairness and Impartiality” continued, with Corbett’s response. | ||
| Frank Luntz, from Words that Work | ||
| • | [audio] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6761960 | |
| Frank Luntz speaks about his book and the ideas that are presented within it. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-luntz/words-that-dont-work_b_39208.html | |
| Editorial about America’s major political parties written by Frank Luntz that references the ideas from his book. | ||
| • | [text] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/opinion/sunday/what-happened-to-obamas-passion.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all | |
| New York Times editorial in which Drew Watson analyzes the language of Barack Obama and the current Democratic Party, criticizing its overall weakness. | ||