Maybe I am missing
something, but in Bitzer's piece, it was slightly distracting for me that the example of a scene
for primitive language was the fishermen from the Trobriand Islands, subtly implying that the culture exclusively uses pragmatic language in comparison to
more Western (or civilized) cultures like the ancient Romans or Americans who
use "oratory" language. I like the link overall as a means to show
that these scenes all show a response to a situation, an exigence, and thus the
varying forms of speech are given "rhetorical significance" and are therefore "similarly functional and similarly situational," but my question is
what could other examples could have been given to make this same point?
In regards to
Yancey, can there be potential weaknesses in promoting purely unstructured
forms of remediation? I see the power and necessity in incorporating genres and
other medias (having been affected strongly myself by such forms as
photojournalism slideshows, podcasts, etc.). But even if the process of
remediation can help students analyze "what they leave out, what they
add," can a series of Tweets from Donald Trump ever be as substantial as a
speech? (314). Can more contexts/links in a digital portfolio always be stronger than
one with a singular focus?
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