Logos (Language and Thought) Lately, with this being election season in the U.S. and all, I’ve had quite a few …we’ll call them “discussions”… which have each been handled in one of a few different ways. Today I’m exploring what those different approaches to discussion are, and what each means for the ideas being discussed.… Continue reading Word(l)y Wednesday: We Can Work It Out
Author: Swalts
Word(l)y Wednesdays – Vox Populi
Ethos (Language and Ethics) The past two weeks I’ve been thinking a lot about voice, specifically the voices I adopt when I’m talking or writing to certain audiences. The more I considered the voices I use and the situations I use them in, the more I questioned whether any of them were “fake” voices. And… Continue reading Word(l)y Wednesdays – Vox Populi
Word(l)y Wednesdays: Move Your Body
Pathos (Language and Emotion) Body language, while not exactly “language” in the strictest sense of the word, is definitely a tool we use along with language to communicate with others–and in a video I recently saw, we can even use it to communicate with ourselves. Language, like so many of the other topics we discuss… Continue reading Word(l)y Wednesdays: Move Your Body
Word(l)y Wednesdays: We Didn’t Start the Fire
Ethos (Our language values) With language being such an unavoidable part of our lives, it gets very closely tied to our beliefs and values from other areas of our lives. In 1976, a series of fires in a Chicago neighborhood killed more than 20 Spanish-speaking residents. One of the problems was that when the fire… Continue reading Word(l)y Wednesdays: We Didn’t Start the Fire