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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. The Artful Nuance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    A reference book for distinguishing between words which, in modern usage, have almost become synonymous.
  4. 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.
  5. Books of Interest - Sources 58
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Reviews of books about journalism, media, and research.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Business Phrases
    Resource Type: Article
    A collection of useful business phrases from earlier days.
  9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  10. Canadian Students' Guide to Language, Literature, and Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Meant for secondary schools, independent use, or small group study
  11. Chomsky for Beginners
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
  12. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  13. 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.
  14. The Complete Plain Words
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  15. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  16. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  17. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  18. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  19. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  20. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  21. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  22. Contested Truths
    Keywords in American Politics since Independence

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  23. CP Caps and Spelling.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
  24. CP Style Book
    A Guide for Writers and Filing Editors

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. 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.
  28. The Elements of Style
    Resource Type: Book
  29. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
    Resource Type: Book
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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?
  33. The Ghost in the Machine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    An analysis of the relationship between reason and imagination.
  34. Good Writing and Speaking
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  35. Harper's English Grammar
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
  36. How to Make Your Words Work
    A practical guide to type layout and design

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  37. Hugo's German Simplified
    An Easy and Rapid Self-Instructor

    Resource Type: Book
  38. Impressive Phrases
    Resource Type: Article
  39. Ines of My Soul
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  40. Inside Language
    A Canadian Language Reader

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
  41. 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.
  42. 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.
  43. Knowledge of Language
    Its Nature, Origin and Use

    Resource Type: Book
  44. Language death
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A process that affects speech communities.
  45. Less Than Words Can Say
    The Underground Grammarian

    Resource Type: Book
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  49. 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.
  50. Made in America
    An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    A history of American English.
  51. The Meaning of Everything
    The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  52. 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.
  53. 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.
  54. 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'.
  55. The New Fowler's Modern English Usage
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Modern English Usage is interesting and informative, and never dry.
  56. 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 don’t care.”
  57. 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.
  58. Orwell
    The War Broadcasts

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  59. Our Generation
    Volume 22 Nomber 1 & 2

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  60. The Oxford Companion to the English Language
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    An encyclopedia of English everywhere, everytime.
  61. The Oxford Companion to the English Language
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  62. The Oxford Companion to the Mind
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  63. 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.
  64. 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.
  65. The Phenomenology of Mind
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1807
    The birthplace and essence of Hegel's dialectic.
  66. 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.
  67. Politics of Communication
    A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  68. 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.
  69. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  70. Prepositional Phrases
    Resource Type: Article
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  73. 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.
  74. Public Speaking Phrases
    Resource Type: Article
  75. 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.
  76. 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.
  77. Sold on Language
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    An inquiry into the language of advertising.
  78. Some of my best comrades are friends
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    The left's sloppy use of language indicates sloppy thinking.
  79. 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".
  80. 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.
  81. The Story of English
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  82. 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.
  83. Talk Talk Talk
    An Investigation into the Mystery of Speech

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Ingram explores the many aspects of talking.
  84. 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.
  85. 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 Pandora’s Box opened that cannot be closed, perhaps because what cybertech installs can neither be abjured nor rejected. "It's all good" apparently. Perhaps not.
  86. 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."
  87. 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.
  88. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  89. Useful Phrases 1
    Resource Type: Article
  90. 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."
  91. 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.
  92. 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.
  93. 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.
  94. 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.
  95. Word Myths
    Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  96. Words that count women in (book review)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1993
  97. 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.
  98. 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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