Week 2 Audio "Readings"




If you don't see or hear anything, go to

NPR's "On the Media"

http://www.onthemedia.org/yore/otm022505.html

and listen to the portion titled "Language Lab"

Politicians have used words to inspire and seduce since the dawn of nations. From Social Security to the Estate Tax to the War on Terror, Brooke explores the ways in which he who controls the language controls the debate.



If you don't see or hear anything, go to

NPR's "Fresh Air"

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=7-Apr-05

and listen to the portion titled "Pro and Con in a Social Debate"

Linguist Geoff Nunberg considers the adjectives pro and con used to describe the President's social security proposal.


If you don't see or hear anything, go to

NPR's "All Things Considered"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5328573

and listen to the portion titled "Speaking the Language of Immigration Debate"

Michele Norris talks with Frank Luntz, communications advisor to congressional Republicans. He has a book coming out at the end of the year, Words that Work. Luntz talks about the use of language in the ongoing immigration debate.


If you don't see or hear anything, go to

NPR's "All Things Considered"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5516284

and listen to the portion titled "The War and the 2006 Vote: One View"

George Lakoff, professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute, and Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist and president of Luntz Research companies in Virginia, talk with Michele Norris about how the continuing Iraq war will affect this year's election cycle.