We have seen that linguists like to think of linguistic items as having fixed and stable properties, among other things inert, literal meanings. This way of looking at linguistic phenomena as objects is coupled with a very popular model of …
Thanks to the innovations in technology, including that used in schools today, most students have had the opportunity to view professional speeches, such as those given by the U.S. President. Presidents throughout
history have given speeches in a similar manner, …
What is Rogerian Argument? (Kiefer)
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Typically, we think of winners and losers of arguments. Our tradition of argument goes back to classical Greece when speakers tried to sway …
Since rhetors began teaching Greek farmers strategies for appealing their cases to Greek courts in the fifth century B.C., the classical argument has stood as a model for writers who believe their case can be argued logically and plausibly to …
Communication as transportation of messages
We have seen that linguists like to think of linguistic items as having fixed and stable properties, among other things inert, literal meanings. This way of looking at linguistic phenomena as objects is coupled with …
The Sources of the Written Language Bias in Linguistics
“European linguistic thought formed and matured over concern with the cadavers of written languages – almost all its basic categories, its basic approaches and techniques were worked out in the process …
Spoken language and speech communication
In a normal speech communication situation, a speaker tries to exert an influence on a listener (or a group of listeners) by making him (or them) perceive, understand, feel or do something particular. The speaker …
When we talk about ‘language’, sometimes we mean speech (spoken language), sometimes writing (written language). How are they different? Of course, speech is spoken and heard, while writing is written and read. But there are many other differences:
Age. Speech …
Since real difference belongs to the extremes, this mean (Mitte) is but an abstract neutrality, their real possibility, the as it were theoretical element of the existence, process, and results of chemical objects. In the corporeal element water has this …