Translingualism
The author of Translingual Practice
Who is Suresh Canagarajah
This unit is made up of a signifier and a signified
What is a sign
The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion
What is rhetoric
An approach to language that believes languages are pure and separated from each other
What is a monolingual orientation
Derrida called this the most original and powerful ethnocentrism
What is logocentrism
This unit is a syllogism with an assumed premise
What is the enthymeme
This scholar asks us to consider why some Englishes are able to stand on their own as legitimate while others must be continually defended as legitimate
Who is Jerry Lee
A method that exposes structural logics in society by flipping binaries to reveal inconsistencies
What is deconstruction
A type of logic that requires examples to make larger claims
What is inductive reasoning
Name one of the forces responsible for static conceptions of language
Romanticism; Enlightenment; Modernity; Industrialization; Nation-state formation; Structuralism; Colonization; Imperialism
This unit emphasizes second-level signification by naturalizing ideology within a text
What is myth
Aristotle mentions that this is the reason to blame the speaker for failing to prove what is "true"
Because what is true naturally prevails over its opposites
"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid...I am saying that perhaps we cannot know whether this fish in question can or cannot climb a tree and, more importantly, that we do not know whether being able to climb a tree is a good thing in the first place"
What is Inscrutability
Name one of the theories of representation discussed by Stuart Hall in "Representation"
Reflective; Intentional; Constructionist
Name one of Aristotle's requirements for good style
Clear; Appropriate; Avoid meanness or undue elation