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Author : Edwin Newman
Publisher : Bobbs-Merrill Company
ISBN 13 : 9780672522673
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (226 download)
Download or read book A Civil Tongue written by Edwin Newman and published by Bobbs-Merrill Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the use and misuse of the English language in the United States.
Author : Mark Kingwell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271013350
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (133 download)
Download or read book A Civil Tongue written by Mark Kingwell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political philosophy can provide citizens is not further theories of the good life but instead directions for talking about how to justify the choices they make&—or, in brief, &"just talking.&" As part of the general trend away from the aridity of Kantian universalism in political philosophy, thinkers as diverse as Bruce Ackerman, J&ürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Richard Rorty have taken a &"dialogic turn&" that seeks to understand the determination of principles of justice as a cooperative task, achieved in some kind of social dialogue among real citizens. In one way or another, however, each of these different variations on the dialogic model fail to provide fully satisfactory answers, Mark Kingwell shows. Drawing on their strengths, he presents another model he calls &"justice as civility,&" which makes original use of the popular literature on etiquette and work in sociolinguistics to develop a more adequate theory of dialogic justice.
Author : Mark Kingwell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027107163X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A Civil Tongue written by Mark Kingwell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1994-12-12 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political philosophy can provide citizens is not further theories of the good life but instead directions for talking about how to justify the choices they make—or, in brief, "just talking." As part of the general trend away from the aridity of Kantian universalism in political philosophy, thinkers as diverse as Bruce Ackerman, Jürgen Habermas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Richard Rorty have taken a "dialogic turn" that seeks to understand the determination of principles of justice as a cooperative task, achieved in some kind of social dialogue among real citizens. In one way or another, however, each of these different variations on the dialogic model fail to provide fully satisfactory answers, Mark Kingwell shows. Drawing on their strengths, he presents another model he calls "justice as civility," which makes original use of the popular literature on etiquette and work in sociolinguistics to develop a more adequate theory of dialogic justice.
Author : Dale Drakeford
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595264174
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)
Download or read book A Political Education Life Arts Project written by Dale Drakeford and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-28 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professional (well cited) introduction to local politics with the state, national and international connections made evident. The book endeavors to make political understanding accessible and digestible to those least interested or inclined to study it. Social and political empowerment is the benchmark, with a sense of humor and satire. Chapters are divided to present thoughts and feelings in different writing genre (essay, letters, diary, and poetry). The book champions experience over research and creativity or passivity. The emphasis is on progressive thought appropriate for communities of color. The book suggests that contrary thinking is productive in a capitalistic democracy.
Author : Suzette Haden Elgin
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558617760
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Native Tongue written by Suzette Haden Elgin and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, Native Tongue earned wide critical praise, and cult status as well. Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life. In this world, Earth’s wealth relies on interplanetary commerce, for which the population depends on linguists, a small, clannish group of families whose women breed and become perfect translators of all the galaxies’ languages. The linguists wield power, but live in isolated compounds, hated by the population, and in fear of class warfare. But a group of women is destined to challenge the power of men and linguists. Nazareth, the most talented linguist of her family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for the government, supervising the children’s language education in the Alien-in-Residence interface chambers, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth does not yet know is that a clandestine revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them of men’s domination. Their secret must, above all, be kept until the language is ready for use. The women’s language, Láadan, is only one of the brilliant creations found in this stunningly original novel, which combines a page-turning plot with challenging meditations on the tensions between freedom and control, individuals and communities, thought and action. A complete work in itself, it is also the first volume in Elgin’s acclaimed Native Tongue trilogy.
Author : William Logan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231147333
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Our Savage Art written by William Logan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Our Savage Art' features the corrosive wit and substantial critiques that are the trademarks of William Logan's style. Opening with a defence of the critical eye, this collection features essays on Robert Lowell's correspondence, Elizabeth Bishop's unfinished poems, and the inflated reputation of Hart Crane.
Author : Utpal Sandesara
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616144327
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book No One Had a Tongue to Speak written by Utpal Sandesara and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 11, 1979, after a week of extraordinary monsoon rains in the Indian state of Gujarat, the two mile-long Machhu Dam-II disintegrated. The waters released from the dam’s massive reservoir rushed through the heavily populated downstream area, devastating the industrial city of Morbi and its surrounding agricultural villages. As the torrent’s thirty-foot-tall leading edge cut its way through the Machhu River valley, massive bridges gave way, factories crumbled, and thousands of houses collapsed. While no firm figure has ever been set on the disaster’s final death count, estimates in the flood’s wake ran as high as 25,000. Despite the enormous scale of the devastation, few people today have ever heard of this terrible event. This book tells, for the first time, the suspenseful and multifaceted story of the Machhu dam disaster. Based on over 130 interviews and extensive archival research, the authors recount the disaster and its aftermath in vivid firsthand detail. The book presents important findings culled from formerly classified government documents that reveal the long-hidden failures that culminated in one of the deadliest floods in history. The authors follow characters whose lives were interrupted and forever altered by the flood; provide vivid first-hand descriptions of the disaster and its aftermath; and shed light on the never-completed judicial investigation into the dam’s collapse.
Author : John Wray
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307425150
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Canaan's Tongue written by John Wray and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the American South in the years before and during the Civil War, John Wray’s hypnotic new novel is at once a crime story, a bravura work of historical fiction, and a fire-and-brimstone meditation on American credulity and corruption. Thaddeus Morelle’s followers call him “the Redeemer.” Over the years he has led the Island 37 Gang from stealing horses to stealing slaves in an enterprise so nefarious that both the Union and Confederacy have placed a bounty on their heads. But now Morelle is dead, murdered by his puppet and protégé, Virgil Ball, who may rid himself of the Redeemer but can never be free of his Trade. Based on the true story of John Murrell, a figure once as infamous as Jesse James, Canaan’s Tongue is suspenseful and fiercely comic, a modern masterpiece of the American grotesque.
Author : Adrian Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mason's Tongue written by Adrian Rice and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yvonne Vera
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374528160
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Without a Name and Under the Tongue written by Yvonne Vera and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two short stories about two young Zimbabwe women.
Author : Logan Pearsall Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Words and Idioms written by Logan Pearsall Smith and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James V. O’Connor
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595835331
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Cuss Control written by James V. O’Connor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINALLY-THE CURE FOR THE COMMON CURSE! Faced with an epidemic of profanity, our country is in need of practical suggestions for breaking a habit that has ordinary citizens contributing to the decline of civility and good manners. It's not always easy to resist the urge to cuss, but foul language creates an unfavorable image, is damaging to relationships, and goes hand-in-hand with a negative attitude. Now, James V. O'Connor-founder of the Cuss Control Academy-offers the first book to explain why we swear and how we can learn to hold our tongues. Cuss Control doesn't call for the total elimination of swearing, just for its confinement to situations where extreme emotion (think hammer, think thumb) demand it. His program for easing us off the gutter-talk highway involves alternative "potent phrases" for classic curses, including the F-word; ways to communicate clearly rather than use lazy language; and tips on adjusting our attitude and abolishing obscenities. Packed with practical exercises and tips, as well as thoughtful reflection on how we've worked ourselves up into such a state of affairs, Cuss Control is a refreshing celebration of the joys of a civil tongue. "O'Connor is not ready to rid the world of dirty words. He just thinks less cursing is the key to a less stressful world, and maintains that even natural-born cursers can learn to control their anger along with their language." -Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Author : Cheveley Novels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cheveley Novels written by Cheveley Novels and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Henry Davenport Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Sunshine and shadow: or, Stories from Crayford written by William Henry Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Georgette Heyer
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402239009
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Civil Contract written by Georgette Heyer and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A five-star job of sheerly delightful romance writing."— Chicago Sunday Tribune Can the wrong bride become the perfect wife? Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton, is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of ruin and his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He has little choice when he is introduced to Mr. Jonathan Chawleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth and no social ambitions for himself-but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only daughter, the quiet and decidedly plain Jenny Chawleigh. What Readers Say: "Heyer always writes brilliantly and is capable of conveying the deepest emotions in the briefest of phrases and subtlest dialogue." "One of Heyer's most skillfully written novels." "Has all of Heyer's usual wit, vivid characters, and attention to detail." "One of my very favourite Heyers — and one of her most profound. Wise and heartwarming." "Thoughtful and thought-provoking ... reveals depths to Heyer's writing." "Truly a gem." Georgette Heyer wrote over fifty novels, including Regency romances, mysteries, and historical fiction. She was known as the Queen of Regency romance, and was legendary for her research, historical accuracy, and her extraordinary plots and characterizations.
Author : Jim Quinn
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780140060843
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)
Download or read book American Tongue and Cheek written by Jim Quinn and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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