Are we hungerin' for a more intellectual discourse having drunk one too many beers with joe six-pack?
Those of us seeking to turn this electoral moment in time into teachable moments, will be thrilled with this marvelous blog post on Linguistic Anthropology. Peter Haney draws on Pierre Bourdieu's notion of the strategy of condescension to evaluate the success and failure of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates to appeal to the American electorate through their speech styles.
No more summary on my part. Read the post. A highly recommended teachable moment. He wrote the lecture for you.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
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Very creattive post
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