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The Social Construction Of Language: Identity, Reality, And Trauma In American Composition Courses, Joselyne Campos
The Social Construction Of Language: Identity, Reality, And Trauma In American Composition Courses, Joselyne Campos
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The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ways in which instructors have the potential to reinforce or disrupt systems of oppression and power in the composition classroom through language, writing, and rhetoric. I draw upon pedagogical and rhetorical theorists, to analyze how language closely interacts with identity and how it impacts an individual's understanding and perception of reality. I consider how texts utilize language to communicate normative citizenship and challenge students' conceptions of the world around them, and how to teach from an anti-racist perspective that incorporates critical pedagogy and does not focus solely on minoritized communities’ trauma …