Weeks+7-9+The+Power+and+Precision+of+the+Word

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 * [|Sample Rhetorical Précis]
 * [|TED The Linguistic Genius of Babies]
 * [|Bonobos]
 * Pablo Neruda The Word
 * [|What's in a Word? Language may shape our thoughts]
 * [|20/20 segment on Linguicism]
 * [|Richard Lederer "English is a Crazy Language"] (example)
 * [|"Mother Tongue" Amy Tan]
 * [|Amy Tan on Creativity]
 * [|Does the term "man" include all human beings?]
 * [|How Connotation Costs Women Jobs, Promotions]
 * [|"To Swear Is Human, and at least for Some, to Curse is Divine",] NY Times
 * [|Emily Bernard "Teaching the N-Word"]
 * [|"Who Can Say Nigger?" Randall Kennedy, Journal of Blacks in Higher Ed. Vanderbilt Lecture]
 * [|Gloria Naylor "A Question of Language"]
 * [|TED James Geary on Metaphor]
 * [|The World of Doublespeak by William Lutz]

Supplemental Reading:
 * [|Metaphors We Live By] by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
 * [|HS Student Analogies and Metaphors]
 * [|Steven Wright Quotes 1]
 * [|Steven Wright Quotes 2]
 * [|Steven Wright Quotes 3]

Supplemental Viewing:
 * [|Victor Borge Phonetic Punctuation]
 * [|Victor Borge Inflationary Language]
 * [|savethewords.org]
 * Better Off Ted episode The Impertence of Communicationizing (stream on netflix)
 * [|"Mensa Invitational"]
 * [|Monty Python's The Argument Clinic]
 * [|Tannen on The Colbert Report] Believes Hillary Clinton is judged more harshly because she's a woman
 * [|Deborah Tannen's Homepage]
 * [|Audio of Tannen and Lutz on Political Language]
 * [|The Lost Art of Democratic Debate]TED Talk
 * [|TED Jane Goodall on how all that separates us form the apes is sophisticated language]