Language and Composition: The Art of Voice (Muller and Whiting)Chapter 1:
Active Reading and Response to TextsContext LinksROBIN TOLMACH LAKOFF, From Ancient Greece to Iraq, The Power of Words in Wartime Context Links The link below takes you to a podcast of an interview with Lakoff concerning speech (linguistic) attributes in contemporary popular political figures. What do you make of the reporting or interview and the issues here?
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2008/10/mojo-audio-linguist-robin-lakoff-analyzes-sarah-palins-accent Consider this article in The New York Times. What is the purpose of this article? How does it relate to the Lakoff essay?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/12lying.html?pagewanted=all
MORTIMER J. ADLER and CHARLES VAN DOREN, How to Read a Book Context Links This video is an interview with Adler about reading books. Do you agree with his premise?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIL980jypc4 Adler and Van Doren recommend these books. What do you think of this list? Have you read any books on this list?
http://home.comcast.net/~dwtaylor1/adler.html This link presents a speech Adler gave in 1990: the Lowell Lecture at Harvard. This page also provides a forum for discussing the work.
http://www.dce.harvard.edu/pubs/lowell/madler.html
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR., The Cult of Ethnicity Context Links What do you think of this review of Schlesinger, Jr.’s book, The Disuniting of America?
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-disuniting-of-america-by-arthur-m-schlesinger-jr/
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