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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Language Exploration and Awareness: The Rationale | |
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| Language Exploration and Awareness: What It is | |
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| Metalinguistic Awareness and the Language Elephant | |
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| Language Study in the Traditional Curriculum | |
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| Growth in and Through Language | |
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| Acquiring and Learning Language | |
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| Language Exploration and Awareness: The Criteria | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Language Exploration and Awareness: Why It is | |
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| The Focus and Contexts of Language Study | |
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| Weaknesses of Traditional Language Study | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Language Exploration and Awareness: Three Prequisites | |
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| Using Real Discourse and Multiple Criteria to Determine Correctness | |
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| Good English in the Contexts of Social Avenues | |
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| School as a Social Event | |
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| Language as a Social Event | |
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| Teaching the English Language as a Social Event | |
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| The Inseparability of Language and Situation | |
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| Remembering Pain, Boredom, or Nothing | |
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| Language Learning Goes On, and On | |
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| Some Essential Language Objectives | |
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| Language Learning Requires Practics | |
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| Enhancing Linguistic Awareness | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Language Exploration and Awareness: The Elements | |
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| Properties of Communication and Language | |
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| The Origin of Language: Some Speculations | |
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| Properties of Communication | |
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| Some Properties of Language | |
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| A Tentative Summary | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Explorations | |
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| Words and Lexicography | |
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| The Multiplicity of Dictionaries | |
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| Word Formation Processes | |
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| Attitudes Toward New Words | |
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| Words as a Reflection of Culture | |
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| The Road to the Dictionary | |
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| "The Dictionary" and Dictionaries | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Explorations | |
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| Grammar, Spelling, and Good English | |
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| Some Ignotions About Standard English | |
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| English Use and Usage | |
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| Where You Can Put Your Prepositions | |
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| How to Split an Infinitive | |
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| Language Errors Real People Make | |
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| Linguistic Leeching | |
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| A More Modern Attitude | |
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| Defining Good English | |
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| Dialect and Diatype | |
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| What About the Spelling Problem? | |
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| Spelling Counts | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Explorations | |
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| Discourse Routines and Social Conventions | |
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| Some Common Social Conventions | |
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| U.S. Telephone Conventions | |
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| Spanish Telephone Conventions | |
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| U.S. Business Telephone Conventions | |
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| Discourse Routines in Context | |
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| Adjacency and Utterance Pairs | |
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| Terms of Address Conventions | |
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| Classroom Discourse | |
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| The Cooperative Principle | |
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| CmC and "Written" Conversation | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Explorations | |
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| Regional, Social, and Historical Variations | |
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| Words, Tools, and Variations | |
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| American English and Dialects | |
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| Variations in American English | |
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| African American Vernacular English | |
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| The Development of AAVE | |
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| Linguistic Prejudice | |
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| Early Linguistic Intolerance | |
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| All Languages Vary | |
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| Phonological, Grammatical, and Lexical Variations | |
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| Regional and Social Dialects | |
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| Dialect Affiliations | |
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| Language and Culture | |
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| Language Variation Over Time | |
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| Using Church Texts for Time Variation Study | |
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| Who Makes These Changes? | |
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| Register in Language | |
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| Attitudes Toward Language Variation and Change | |
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| Language Variation in Literature | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Explorations | |
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| Meanings and General Semantics | |
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| What's in a Name? Word Magic! | |
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| It's "Only Semantics" | |
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| Semantics and Linguistics | |
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| Alfred Korzybski and General Semantics | |
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| Euphemisms and Jargon | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Explorations | |
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| The Languages of Intolerance and Discrimination | |
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| Overt Intolerance | |
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| Sticks, Stones, and Words | |
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| Why Some People Have Many Names | |
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| A Larger Social Issue | |
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| A Confession | |
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| Sexist Language | |
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| The Two-Value Orientation | |
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| The Language of Prejudice | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Explorations | |
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| When Some of Them Don't Speak English | |
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| The Growing Numbers of English-Language Learners | |
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| Who Are These Students? | |
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| Some Notions About Teaching ELL Learners | |
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| Who Owns English? | |
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| Designing ELL Classroom Strategies | |
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| What About Grammar and Correctness? | |
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| And Now, in Conclusion ... | |
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| Reviewing the Chapter | |
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| Explorations | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |