- Africa: Lessons From Africa Prove the Incredible Value of Mother Tongue Learning
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Using case studies of educational systems in Africa, Heugh defends the use of mother-tongue education in multilingual countries, whereby vernacular languages are used in primary schools to introduce official languages.
- Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
- The Artful Nuance
Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 A reference book for distinguishing between words which, in modern usage, have almost become synonymous.
- Between the Lines
How to Detect Bias and Propaganda in the News and Everyday Life Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 An exploration of medthods of "dec-doing" our daily newspapers and radio/TV news. Examines our predominant sources of information (mass media) and indicates the existence of many alternative sources of informaiton.
- Books of Interest - Sources 58
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
- The Brain That Changes Itself
Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Doidge explains neuroplasticity and shows that the brain is not a collection of specialized parts but a dynamic organ and can rewire and rearrange itself as the need arises.
- Burnt bridges and a generation
Resource Type: Article Published: 1993 A first person account of the struggle the children of immigrants face in communicating with their grandparents across a language barrier.
- Business Phrases
Resource Type: Article A collection of useful business phrases from earlier days.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Students' Guide to Language, Literature, and Media
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Meant for secondary schools, independent use, or small group study
- Chomsky for Beginners
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- A Civil Tongue
South Sudan tries to learn English Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 South Sudan has proclaimed English its official language as part of an attempt to encourage economic growth.
- The Complete Plain Words
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1987
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Contested Truths
Keywords in American Politics since Independence Resource Type: Book Published: 1988
- CP Caps and Spelling.
Resource Type: Book Published: 1969
- CP Style Book
A Guide for Writers and Filing Editors Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- Creole Languages
Resource Type: Article Published: 1983 These widely scattered languages show striking similarities. The development of Creole in Hawaii suggests children learn a language by first constructing an abstract form of a creole.
- Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasant realities in abstraction or sugar, is so perfectly endemic that we expect nothing else.
- Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers
A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Covers almost 3000 words are covered here, mainly American white slang from fads and trends that came out of technology, music, the armed forces, rhymes, and animals.
- The Elements of Style
Resource Type: Book
- Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
Resource Type: Book
- Filthy English
The How, Why, When And What of Everyday Swearing Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 An exploration of swearing with background in psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, psychoanalysis and linguistics. Mainly focused on British English, however also explores languages such as Quebecois French and Russian.
- For Reasons of State
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Essays in which Chomsky analyzes the role of the American state and discusses some of the ways in which individuals can respond to its growing power.
- Forbidden Words - Cursing and Swearing
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Strong language helps people cope with stress. But what are the repercussions?
- The Ghost in the Machine
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975 An analysis of the relationship between reason and imagination.
- Good Writing and Speaking
Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- Harper's English Grammar
Resource Type: Book Published: 1956
- How to Make Your Words Work
A practical guide to type layout and design Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Hugo's German Simplified
An Easy and Rapid Self-Instructor Resource Type: Book
- Impressive Phrases
Resource Type: Article
- Ines of My Soul
Resource Type: Book Published: 2006
- Inside Language
A Canadian Language Reader Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Journalism and 'the words of power'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
- Keywords
A Vocabulary of Culture and Society Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 Williams examines more than 100 familiar words and explores how they are used.
- Knowledge of Language
Its Nature, Origin and Use Resource Type: Book
- Language death
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A process that affects speech communities.
- Less Than Words Can Say
The Underground Grammarian Resource Type: Book
- Literature & Language Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources Resource Type: Website A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to literature and language in the Sources directory for the media.
- A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992 Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
- The Long Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1965
- The Loom of Language
A Guide to Foreign Languages for the Home Student Resource Type: Book This book provides a survey of language throughout history, from hieroglyphs to modern day languages.
- Made in America
An Informal History of the English Language in the United States Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 A history of American English.
- The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary Resource Type: Book Published: 2003
- Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he examines the power of music through the individaul experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people.
- A Natural History of Latin
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Latin is the most influential language in the world. It supports the European Romance languages, English, the Roman Catholic Church, and most of the vocabulary in science-technology, law and culture.
- The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye's Demolition of Derrida
Resource Type: Article Published: 1993 A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
- The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
Third Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1996 Modern English Usage is interesting and informative, and never dry.
- A New Language is the Number One Imperative for a New Left Project
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Socialists use words few people know to make arguments few people understand to fight for causes few people recognise on people who dont care.
- Origins of the Specious
Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 A review of popular misconceptions of English grammar and vocabulary.
- Orwell
The War Broadcasts Resource Type: Book Published: 1986
- Our Generation
Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- The Oxford Companion to the English Language
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 An encyclopedia of English everywhere, everytime.
- The Oxford Companion to the English Language
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- The Oxford Companion to the Mind
Resource Type: Book Published: 1987
- Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Second Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 These entries tell the story behind words, names and sayings. The range is from short definitions to more detailed accounts.
- Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
- The Phenomenology of Mind
Resource Type: Book Published: 1807 The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
- Politics and the English Language
Resource Type: Article Published: 1946 In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism., question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.
- Politics of Communication
A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation Resource Type: Book Published: 1973
- Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract objects -- "language", "power", "justice", "state", "culture", "government", "the polity", "the economy" and a host of others, which are viewed "theoretically" from somewhere way "outside" or "above" them. But it is just this way of looking at things -- from "on high" -- that makes it so difficult to see how people in the landscape are able to create and re-create the world in which they live, and are not simply trapped or formed by it. In fashionable postmodernist treatments of identity or subjectivity, language, as the ultimately hollow and imprisoning object, is put together with the notion that anybody who uses words must be committed to the standard definition of those words, to produce the conclusion that "language" determines the meaning of "identity" words such as man, woman, gay, straight, black, white, natural, normal -- and thus "constructs" (as it is said) human identity or subjectivity itself.
- Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- Prepositional Phrases
Resource Type: Article
- Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
The Russell Lectures Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 These lectures explore Bertrand Russell's work on empiricism, morality, linguistics and politics.
- Professionally Speaking
Getting Ahead in Business and Life Through Effective Communicating Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 Guidelines for effective communication, including media interviews and speeches.
- Propaganda and Consciousness: The Future of Big Flame Newspaper
Resource Type: Article A political dicussion of the strategy and practice of Big Flame, written in the early 1970s.
- Public Speaking Phrases
Resource Type: Article
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1980 Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
- Sold on Language
Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 An inquiry into the language of advertising.
- Some of my best comrades are friends
Resource Type: Article Published: 1979 The left's sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
- 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".
- Spell It Out
The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 David Crystal offers up explanations of how English spellling, while not simple, can be sensible if you look at the history of the language and its vocabulary.
- The Story of English
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- The Story of Language
The Classic Account by a World-Famous Linguist of Humanity's Most Important Invention Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 The author explores the origin and development of language from the first sounds spoken to the many languages used today.
- Talk Talk Talk
An Investigation into the Mystery of Speech Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Ingram explores the many aspects of talking.
- The price of one lie is the loss of many truths (TM)
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Does a 4000-year-old law harm us today? You bet it does. Names coming out of that law are in our language today and are being used everyday.
- Thoughtcrimes and Stupidspeak: Our Assault Against Words
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 We are tortured with repetitions. How many bloggers do we have in cyberspace, opining in a Duckspeak that gets a Bellyfeel response because those who have an opposing Bellyfeel response listen only to their Duckspeak bloggers. 152 million bloggers as of 2013. 500 million tweets per day. 1.71 billion active users on Facebook. 4 billion YouTube views per day. A Pandoras Box opened that cannot be closed, perhaps because what cybertech installs can neither be abjured nor rejected. "It's all good" apparently. Perhaps not.
- The Trouble with Theory
The Educational Costs of Postmodernism Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Yet Kitching writes: "At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, deeply confused, and misbegotten philosophy. As a result even the very best students who fall under its sway produce radically incoherent ideas about language, meaning, truth, and reality."
- 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.
- University of Winnipeg
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Useful Phrases 1
Resource Type: Article
- War, Peace and the Media
Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 Zwicker argues that press coverage of the USSR is "profoundly uninformative, a journalistic yawn that is helping us sleepwalk toward the biggest slumber of all time: nuclear war."
- The Whatchamacallit
Those Everyday Objects You Just Can't Name (and Things You Think You Know about But Don't) Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 A compendium of lesser known terms for ordinary things with background and notes.
- Why I Choose Optimism Over Despair
An Interview With Noam Chomsky Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Noam Chomsky explores the possibilities for a better human society.
- Word for Word
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 The authors try to explain the differences between word usages. Here are about 3000 examples that are confusing because they look alike, sound alike, or seem alike.
- Word Myths
Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Takes on linguistic urban legeds, not just debunking them but also examining why they are told and what they tell us about ourselves.
- Word Myths
Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends Resource Type: Book Published: 2004
- Words that count women in (book review)
Resource Type: Article Published: 1993
- Words that Count Women In - Review
Resource Type: Article Published: 1993 Review of Words that Count Women In. A guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.
- Words, words, words...
Diemer, Ulli Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 The misuse of language implies a failure to think clearly, to analyse correctly, to communicate with others.
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