What's Language Got to Do with It?

Name: What's Language Got to Do with It?
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
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paperback – March 2, 2005

by Brody, Michal

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ISBN-13: 9780393978841 ISBN-10: 0393978842

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Binding

paperback

Published

March 2, 2005

Weight

1.6 lbs

Dimensions

21.60×2.80×16.50 cm

About this book

What's Language Got to Do with It? by Brody, Michal. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780393978841.

In the Mideast, words shoot to kill. On the pages of the New Yorker, Romeo IMs Juliet. In India, operators in customer service call centers are required to speak English with an American accent and to be able to make small talk about the Super Bowl. Closer to home, ABC News offers up a linguistic profiling quiz. And George Orwell continues to lament the state of politics and the English language. This is just some of what you’ll find in What’s Language Got to Do with It?, a thought-provoking new reader that introduces some of the most important language issues facing us today―and prompts students to think hard about their own use of language.