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Forbidden Words - Cursing and Swearing
2009-07-21
Diane Craig, President, Corporate Class Inc.
Strong language helps people cope with stress. But what are the repercussions?
The price of one lie is the loss of many truths (TM)
2010-03-31
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.

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Africa: Lessons From Africa Prove the Incredible Value of Mother Tongue Learning
Heugh, Kathleen
Article
2017
Allafrica
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 o...
Business Phrases
Article
A collection of useful business phrases from earlier days.
Impressive Phrases
Kleiser, Grenville
Article
Journalism and 'the words of power'
Fisk, Robert
Article
2010
Al Jazeera
More and more today, we journalists have become prisoners of the language of power.
Language death
Connexipedia Article
Article
A process that affects speech communities.
Literature & Language Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
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A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to literature and language in the Sources directory for the media.
Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism
Kitching, Gavin
Article
2008
The Australian
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 object...
The Semantics of Terrorism
Al-Jurf, Soha
Article
2010
CounterPunch
A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant....
Thoughtcrimes and Stupidspeak: Our Assault Against Words
Natoli, Joseph
Article
2016
Counter Punch
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...

Sources Bookshelf

The Artful Nuance
Evans, Ron L.
Book
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
MacLean, Eleanor
Book
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 o...
Canadian Students' Guide to Language, Literature, and Media
Barclay, Susanne; Coghill, Judith; Weeks, Peter
Book
2001
Meant for secondary schools, independent use, or small group study
Chomsky for Beginners
Cogswell, David; Gordon, Paul
Book
1996
An introduction to the life and works of Noam Chomsky.
Culture of Complaint
The Fraying of America
Hughes, Robert
Book
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 unpleasan...
Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers
A Decade-by-Decade Guide to the Vanishing Vocabulary of the Twentieth Century
Ostler, Rosemarie
Book
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.
Filthy English
The How, Why, When And What of Everyday Swearing
Silverton, Peter
Book
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...
The Ghost in the Machine
Koestler, Arthur
Book
1967
An analysis of the relationship between reason and imagination.
The Loom of Language
A Guide to Foreign Languages for the Home Student
Bodmer, Frederic
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
Bryson, Bill
Book
1994
A history of American English.
The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Winchester, Simon
Book
2003
Musicophilia
Tales of Music and the Brain
Sacks, Oliver
Book
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, musi...
A Natural History of Latin
Janson, Tore; trans. and adapted into English by Merethe Damsgard Sorensen and Nigel Vincent
Book
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 New Fowler's Modern English Usage
Third Edition
Burchfield, R.W.
Book
1926
Modern English Usage is interesting and informative, and never dry.
Origins of the Specious
Myths and Misconceptions of the English Language
O’Conner, Patricia T.; Kellerman, Stewart
Book
2009
A review of popular misconceptions of English grammar and vocabulary.
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
Ayto, John; Simpson, John
Book
1992
There are 5000 slang words and phrases here, words commonly found in the UK, North America, Australia, and other parts of the English-speaking world.
Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Second Edition
Knowles, Elizabeth (ed.)
Book
2000
These entries tell the story behind words, names and sayings. The range is from short definitions to more detailed accounts.
Professionally Speaking
Getting Ahead in Business and Life Through Effective Communicating
Wilder, Lilyan
Book
1986
Guidelines for effective communication, including media interviews and speeches.
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense
Find Your Inner Chomsky
Baillargeon, Normand
Book
2005
What must a citizen in a democracy know to make the word democracy meaningful? Baillargeon provides readers with the tools to see through everyday spin and jargon -- from politics to advertising, from...
Sold on Language
Sedivy, Julie; Carlson, Greg
Book
2010
An inquiry into the language of advertising.
Spell It Out
The Curious, Enthralling and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling
Crystal, David
Book
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.
Talk Talk Talk
An Investigation into the Mystery of Speech
Ingram, Jay
Book
1992
Ingram explores the many aspects of talking.
War, Peace and the Media
Zwicker, Barrie
Book
1983
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)
Danziger, Danny; McCrum, Mark
Book
2009
A compendium of lesser known terms for ordinary things with background and notes.
Word for Word
Clark, Stewart; Pointon, Graham
Book
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
Wilton, David
Book
2004
Takes on linguistic urban legeds, not just debunking them but also examining why they are told and what they tell us about ourselves.
Words that Count Women In
Book
1993
A popular guide to eliminating gender bias in writing and speech.

Media

Alberta Journal of Educational Research
Devoted to all forms of inquiry into education and fields related to or associated with education.
Canadian Modern Language Review
Peer-reviewed articles on language, linguistics, teaching, how we learn language, psychology, and methodology. Also provide curriculums and program designs.


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