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Download full textYang, Melissa T. – Composition Studies, 2023
This essay illuminates adaptable and multimodal ways of teaching with etymology and idiomatic origin stories in the composition classroom. I model my pedagogical approach with a topic central to my rhetorical research--pigeons in histories of human communication--and the rich etymologically-linked concepts of homing in, pigeonholing, and…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Etymology, Language Patterns, Educational Practices
Direct linkJoyce Annette Maxwell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
As a historically racialized utterance, "nigger" has been a contested and despised word since the late 17th Century. Now, in the 21st Century, "nigga" is still considered one of the most impactful words in the English lexicon. This dissertation provides one situated and contingent analysis of nigga as a moment of excess in the…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Higher Education, Speech Acts, Language Patterns
