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Today in class

Today in class. Project Babel Discussion board Some review from Anderson’s “Origins” and Simpson’s “Founding Fathers” break Roaming fishbowl discussion. microessays Challenge Use the course readings Focus Illustrate Avoid Padding Polish . responses Engage the author’s thinking

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Today in class

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  1. Today in class • Project Babel • Discussion board • Some review from Anderson’s “Origins” and Simpson’s “Founding Fathers” break • Roaming fishbowl discussion

  2. microessays Challenge Use the course readings Focus Illustrate Avoid Padding Polish responses Engage the author’s thinking Offer help with presentation Critique, don’t criticize Make it useful and readable discussion board

  3. discussion questions • According to Anderson's argument, what are the three ways that print-languages "laid the bases for national consciousnesses"? • Why is Adams interested in the foundation of an American Academy of language? • Sapir-Whorf hypothesis • What are Hobbes' concerns about the use of metaphor? • Lakoff and Johnson on metaphor • How does Locke's "rhetoric of the 'common language' [ . . . ] function[] as a sort of populist placebo in treatises on language that are in various ways covertly authoritarian"? • Standard language (ideology) • What are the primary arguments outlined for and against developing a distinct American language? • ordered language = ordered state • language change

  4. for Monday • Read Anzaldua and Lippi-Green. • Come up with 2-3 ideas for Project Babel • Post microessays to the discussion board by 9pm Tuesday. • Read the discussion board before class and come ready to talk about the questions on the discussion board.

  5. Anderson’s “Origins” 3 ways in which print-languages laid the bases for national conciousness: • “they created unified fields of exchange and communication below Latin and above the spoken vernaculars” • “gave a new fixity to language” • “created new languages-of-power”

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