language is reality, therefore language is power
familiar ideas feel natural, neutral
but nothing is neutral
so there is a language war
but
true revolutionaries would reject the power of the dictionary to define them
This blog is part of Kevin Mahoney's ENG 230 Advanced Composition course for Fall 2007. Over the course of the semester, we will be considering the rhetorical construction of public discourse and how to rhetorically intervene in our public spheres. This blog will be an integral part of the writing you will do and will also serve as one of the course texts--a text that will be written by you.
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