Clearing a Vygotskyan Path examines the politics of dialect from a developmental psychology and epistemological perspective, showing how misperceptions of language use shape attitudes and influence our ways of talking about language and teaching "correct" forms of writing. Beyond seeing language as a natural cognitive outcome of socializing processes, Broudy shows how writers coping with various apprehensions can develop  through language play higher forms of awareness of their own innate sense of rhetorical expression.  Gestalt theory and the cognitive effects of cohesion and coherence serve as the theoretical backdrop of play.  His research has implications in related areas where words and phrases can serve as coping mechanisms for anxiety, normalizing stress, and bringing closure to traumatic experiences.

Clearing A Vygotskyan Path: Phrase Play From Poetics To Prose

Reference

Broudy, Daniel

Words, Language & Grammar

Waldport Press

<p>Religiosity is bankrupt. Prejudice runs rampant. Hypocrisy reigns. Welcome to Cassavora County! In this light-hearted, highly entertaining novel, Jake Morgan, the work's protagonist, struggles to make a difference in The Deep South. Can he correct what ails this part of America? Should he even try? Though an outsider, Jake has the right intentions, and with a little luck, he might be able to set things right.</p>

Cassavora County

Stroud, William

Literature & Fiction

<p>Broudy and Pollick critically examine the programs of four radio pundits (Limbaugh, Schultz, Colmes and Hannity) and two TV pundits (O'Reilly and Olbermann), comparatively assessing their argumentative styles, call screening processes, use of 'teasers', guest diversity (how ideologically balanced the guest list is), and the ratio of time devoted to callers vs. host soliloquies. Authors also fit the genre into an historical context, tracing its roots back to Father Coughlin from the 1930s. In addition, the authors examine how propagandistic each show is and how such propaganda might affect civic (and civilized) participation, public discourse and the perception of political issues. The writing style ranges from scholarly to more conversational and cheeky (especially when obviously fallacious reasoning appears in hosts' arguments). Finally, the authors critically discuss the concept of American Exceptionalism and how it underlies the premises of many of the hosts.</p>

Rhetorical Rape: The Verbal Violations of the Punditocracy

Politics & Social Sciences

Pollick, Barry

Politics & Government

Jake Morgan is running for a board of education in a backwater town, just for the fun of it. But nobody gets into politics just for fun of it any more than anyone gets into pig farming just for the smell of it. No one knows that better than his Chinese-American girlfriend. After all, she works for a US Senator. But Jake still harbors the quaint thoughts that a board of education has something to do with education and politics has something to do with serving the public. He's a newcomer to the county, a non-Christian who is scaring the bejesus out of the in-crowd and whose families have ruled Cassavora since oak trees were acorns.  Then there's the problem of a dead football coach. Though caught between the bookends of local politics and justice in his investigation, Sheriff Sam Goddard is intent on getting some answers. Hey, this is Cassavora, an old county that is changing faster than you can say cul-de-sac. Goddard and Morgan are crisscrossing the landscape, one looking for villains and the other for votes. Welcome to Cassavora County. There are some squirrelly characters around here, and you're going to meet them all as this plot races from the uproarious to the profound and back again.

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Clearing A Vygotskyan Path: Phrase Play From Poetics To Prose

Cassavora County

Rhetorical Rape: The Verbal Violations of the Punditocracy

Cassavora County