Affirmations By Martha Nussbaum Summary

After reading the article “For Argument’s Sake” by Deborah Tannen, it was clear that she was trying to prove that people now a day will argue just to argue. She uses her own experiences as examples. For example, she was on a talk show with her antagonist, who stated to her “When you get out there, I’m going to attack you. But don’t take it personally.” Even though her antagonist clearly stated he enjoyed her book, he was still going to argue with her over it, therefore arguing just to argue. Another example she uses is when a woman called that talk show. The woman told a story of her walking to an area that was a non-smoking area, where there she found a man smoking. She figured that instead of demanding him to stop smoking, she simply states

     The rhetorical style uses persuasive ideals in the use of language. For example, in the first sentence of the second paragraph, the parallel structure and

The formalist method of literary criticism is primarily focused on the text itself, rather than external topics such as history and background, the author's biographical information, or the social contexts which surround a piece of work. In the formalist perspective, we ask ourselves, why did the author choose to write his or her work in this specific style? Why did he or she choose to include certain literary elements? "What matters most to the formalist critic is how the work comes to mean what it does--how its resources of language are deployed by the writer to convey meaning" (DiYanni 2076). A reader can employ the formalist method to decipher many meanings in Mary Shelley's classic text Frankenstein. Shelley uses setting,

This trait in Ellis’s writing and teaching style is what really grabbed me and got me interested in the book. How wise is the person who realizes that as scholarly as they may be, there may always be a better opinion out there? Joseph has presented to me a most noble way to write. He has circumvented my prejudice against authors who insist that their ideas and methods are the only thoughts that exist.

We normally study style because we want to explain something, and in general, literary stylistics has the goal of explaining the relation between language and artistic function (Leech and Short, 1981: 13).Short and Candlin (1989: 183) view stylistics as a linguistic approach to the study of the literary texts. It thus embodies one essential part of the general course; that of combining language and literary study. Stylistics, the study of the devices in languages such as rhetorical figures and syntactical patterns that are considered to produce expressive or literary style.

King incorporates a myriad of stylistic devices that shape and develop the theme of the passage in the book. Through the periodic use of rhetorical questions such as,

The King uses a lot of stylistic elements in his letter to the Birmingham Jail. Stylistic elements are techniques that give meaning, feeling, or ideas. One of the elements he uses is allusion. An allusion

As we read this passage it is full of different rhetorical strategies and the reason they were put in there. The writer’s style is the way he uses his language and the rhetorical strategies that he might use to enhance his writing. As I read the passage I came across syntax which is the war he puts his words to send the reader a message, and ad hominem arguing his point against the person instead of the argument. The rhetorical used in the reading is used cleverly enough to prove a point.

In Thomas and Turner’s Clear and Simple as the Truth it is made a point that truth is a huge part in the classic writing style. There are different examples of the way that truth is used in classic writing. The truth is used in different ways in order to show the fullness of the classic writing style.

S2 A “convention” in art, for him, is specific techniques of writing which occur frequently over time in the realm of literature, and writers emulate other people's compositions, which they have already read. Literary conventions, therefore, become standard as a customary way of writing.

Writing styles changed drastically from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. The nineteenth century had authorial intervention and authors wrote about things they had never experienced, where as the twentieth century had a lot of hidden symbols and images and writings were more generally based on events in which the authors had been a part of. Many people thought these “hard to understand writings would be a temporary phase of literature, but authors such as Ernest Hemingway wrote in such a branding way that this writing style has been a constant example of a powerful literary expression.

There are different forms of literature which can include essays, poems, novels, reports and more. The one thing all forms of literature have in common is that they all have meaning, purpose and form, but how it is expressed is all different, the question is how. Most of the times authors have a reason to convey such messages, and how the messages are delivered is up to the author as well. The author uses the form, it’s aesthetics to send the readers an image; what kind of literature it is. The authors also send the readers a blatant message, the message is sent through the text of the literature. Through the text on the literature the author portrays purpose, and with the form of the

?In Transforming English Studies: New Voices in an Emerging Genre, Marcia A. McDonald quotes Martha Nussbaum:

Because of his tactics, he fundamentally surpasses Fordham’s mediocre writing style which can be viewed in the following example. Villelabeitia states, “The banter is a form of speech that mixes Arabic with English. It is widely used among Jordan's Western-educated elites, drawing ire from language purists and exposing a widening social and economic gap in the small kingdom.” This sentence displays the clearness of the author’s ideas expressed through his strong writing style as the reader finds himself receiving the author’s thoughts clearly, making Villelabeitia goal achieved easily. Due to the clarity of the author’s meaning, his claims are furthermore strengthened and

'It is a style of writing in which familiar ordinary aspects of life are depicted in a matter-of-fact straight-forward manner designed to reflect life as it actually is'