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Richard Lachmann, University at Albany – The Tonality of Textbooks

Dec 18, 2014

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Academic Minute

in Education, History, Linguistics, Media, Sociology

The tone of a written passage can fully influence how it is comprehended. Dr. Richard Lachmann, a political sociologist at The University at Albany (SUNY), is studying the shifting tonality of textbooks especially in their treatment of war. Richard Lachmann (Ph.D. Harvard 1983) is professor of sociology at the University at Albany, State University of…