Summary Of Great White Sharks X By Peter Benchley

Each “hearer” also interprets what he hears as a beholder.  Consequently, if an English speaker, or writer desires to convey a message, truth, fiction or nonfiction, entertainment, persuasion, evidence of fact, he must use correct language, perhaps colloquialisms, be aware of the listeners, their education, culture, motivation and attention. The written and spoken language can be used to deceive as well as to inform.  Advertisement, celebrities, leading preachers, politicians are used to provide a single perspective, not thorough information leading to a reasoned conclusion.

Sinclair’s use of descriptive, in depth diction serves to promote a reaction out of the reader, by depicting as thorough as possible his evidence and reasoning, similar to the purpose of his intense tone. However, this descriptive diction does more than just provoke a response out his audience as his tone does, it also strengthens the supporting evidence and reasoning behind his message.

In "All Together Now" by Barbara Jordan there are many persuasive techniques that Jordan uses, including loaded words. Jordan wrote that "When I look at race relations today I can see that some positive changes have come about." The use of "positive" may puzzle the reader. Some may be left wondering about what "positive" means, but others may think that the changes that have happened were not positive at all. A description of a "loaded word" is when an author includes wording that sound important and meaningful, when in reality it has no meaning whatsoever. Another example of a loaded word occurs when Jordan says, "I'm an incurable optimist". What to some might mean for one to expect the best from everything, may be to someone else just someone that calls themselves optimistic but is not in reality. What is confusing to the reader is what incurably optimistic really means, a good thing or a bad thing. Jordan uses loaded words to try to persuade her audience to join in with her idea in her speech, "All Together

are biased, they are also generalized. For example, when he uses words like: we, all, us,

Loaded language consists of words with positive or negative connotation. “America is a friend to the people of Iraqi”(Bush)- an example of loaded language. Bush implies that we are friends with Iraqi, making America appear as the good guy and Iraqi appear hostile for threatening a “friend”. Relative to Bush’s speech, Patrick Henry states “we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne”(Henry). America has been harshly rejected by the throne after multiple kind attempts to remove themselves from Britain. The loaded language in both pieces reveal the opposing force as harsh and cruel.

By now, we easily recognize this argument. It is an argument that many current "literacy" and rhetoric studies are taking up-an argument that investigates the power, politics, and pedagogy of a dominant culture designed to keep that culture in a dominant position primarily through its language and rhetoric, its "social grammar". Schools both implicitly and explicitly serve the dominant culture and instill that social grammar. Thus, education in American schools has explicitly prioritized the indoctrination of the English language over the use of American Sign Language (ASL).

Rosenthal and Jacobson’s classic experiment demonstrates the power of labels. In the experiment, the team arbitrarily labeled a few first graders as ‘bloomers.’ This designation was only made known to the teachers. In the following year, those students outperformed their peers by 10-15 IQ points. The teachers’ increased expectations and treatment may have facilitated their growth. Even language can fundamentally affect our perception of the world. In an interesting study, German and Spanish speakers were asked to describe the same bridge. The German speakers described the bridge as ‘beautiful’ or ‘elegant’, and the Spanish speakers described it as ‘strong’ or ‘sturdy.’ In German, bridge is a feminine word while in Spanish it is a masculine word. Symbols have a similar influence on our behavior. The American flag often evokes thoughts of freedom, equality, and justice. When students were sat in front of an American flag as opposed to a blank wall, they reported feeling more tolerant of other races and

Language is powerful and can be used to control instead of uplift. An example of language being used to

Language has the influence to undermine the relativity or seriousness of a topic. In Molly Worthen’s article “Stop Saying ‘I Feel Like’“, she interviewed several college students, historians, scientists, etc. about their attitude toward the phrase ‘I feel like…’. In one particular response from Jing Chai, she states, “I’ve tried to

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Language para 2: One factor in both articles that will always have a positive effect on a

One of the most important themes in this novel is power. The society of Gilead restructures the meaning of words to establish power. Gilead’s new vocabulary reinforces a totalitarian regime by using language to regulate the words and ideas that people can express, similar to linguistic determinism. In Eleanor Rosch’s (1974) article of Linguistic relativity, she identified both a strong and weak version of the linguistic relativity hypotheses, a degree in which language is presumed to influence our thought and behavior. The weak hypothesis is linguistic relativity, where linguistic categories and usage only influence thought and decisions. (Rosch, 1974). However, the Gilead’s use of language reflects that more of the strong hypothesis.

In the article “Lost in Translation”, the author, Lera Boroditsky, maintains as her thesis that the languages we speak not only reflect or express our thoughts, but also shape the very thoughts we wish to express. Boroditsky begins the main section of her essay with the history of the issue of whether or not languages shape the way speakers think. Charlemagne was the first to think that languages do in fact shape the mindset of speaker, but Noam Chomsky rebutted this idea with his thought that languages do not differ much from each other, thus in turn proposing that linguistic differences do not cause a difference in thinking. Now with scientists

This journey starts with the input obtained from the interpretation of the lexical and grammatical coding of the utterance (immediate) context. Since this input (from deixis, lexical triggers) is insufficient for the interpretation of the context because it does not include non-textual cues, the analysis proceeds to the study of inferencing (presuppositions, implicatures). Once the speaker/hearer interpretation is given, then the speech act level determines the function of the utterance. After that the speech act comes as the umbrella category for deixis, presupposition, implicature, and, potentially, a component category or a vital input in the macro

I will focus predominately on the omissions that were not made as part of a linguistic strategy by the interpreter. However, the following essay takes a look at both sides of the argument.