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二、主要复习内容：
1、Gender, Race, and Language Conflict
Sexism in English; rapport-talk and report-talk; anti-male bias in English; how names define relationships; names for the race; black English.
2、Right Words, Wrong Words, My Words
What dictionaries can do for us; four-letter words; the E word; taboo language; English that belongs to everybody.
3、Language and Cultural Diversity
Vanishing languages; whether English should be the law; bilingual children; Americanization; names in the melting pot.
4. The Language of Politics and Advertising
How language may serve as the rhetoric of democracy; the doublespeak of weasel words; unprotected sex talk; types of propaganda.
5. Technology and Language
Gender wars in cyberspace; C'est what?; techniques of coinage.
6. Writers and the Writing Process
Some instructions on writing and life; how to hold the reader; writing as rewriting; concision; computers and writing.
7. Reader's Choice (5th edition)
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