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  1. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  2. Eyes Like Blank Discs
    The Guardian's Steven Poole On George Orwell's Politics And The English Language

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Poole's review of Orwell is itself a textbook example of the kind of alienated response described by Orwell, Fromm and Schmidt. Whereas Orwell's essay is the work of an impassioned, outspoken individual opposing 'the machine society’, Poole's article is the work of a corporate professional operating ‘within the confines of an assigned ideology’.
  3. Here's What Shakespeare's Plays Sounded Like With Their Original English Accent
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    In this short documentary, linguist David Crystal and his son, actor Ben Crystal, look at the differences between English pronunciation now and how it was spoken 400 years ago. They answer the most basic question you probably have right now — How do you know what it sounded like back then? — and they discuss the value of performing Shakespeare’s plays in the original accent…
  4. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  5. Made in America
    An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    A history of American English.
  6. Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  7. Politics of Communication
    A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  8. The President's Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
  9. Speaking and Language
    Defence of Poetry

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Goodman writes, "I do not think there can be a rule for the appropriate use of formal or vernacular language...The best is to try for a vernacular that molds itself to what is going on and to use it critically".
  10. The Story of English
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  11. Talk Talk Talk
    An Investigation into the Mystery of Speech

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Ingram explores the many aspects of talking.
  12. Understanding Media
    The Extensions of Man

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
    McLuhan says that the means by which people communicate determine their thoughts and actions.

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