New readings — almost half of the selections — emphasize the connection between language and culture.
- In e-Pages: Firoozeh Dumas reflects on the challenges of growing up in America with an Iranian name.
- David Crystal exploring how text messaging has — and hasn’t — altered our use of language.
- Richard Lederer’s humorous look at regional differences in speech and vocabulary across America.
A new organization offers smaller, more focused chapters on a wider variety of topics. New chapter topics include
- Language and Technology, which focuses on how technology is shaping our linguistic habits and transforming our vocabulary.
- Language that Made a Difference, centered on influential speeches and letters, both historical and current.
- How Do Words Hurt?, a new "Arguing about Language" debate that examines the effects of harmful words used casually in everyday speech.
A new "Writing with Sources" chapter helps students integrate sources into their own writing. From advice on how to use sources in a purposeful way to help integrating summaries, paraphrases, and quotations, the new "Writing with Sources" chapter guides students as they learn to think about and interact with their sources. The chapter also offers advice and examples on how to recognize and avoid plagiarism.
e-Pages with multimodal readings bring language to life. Online selections allow students to hear the differences in regional accents, watch language take shape via kinetic typography, and much more. Visit bedfordstmartins.com/languageawareness/epages.