Because words matter.
Occasionally I encounter people who dismiss my interest in frame language by saying something like, “Oh, that’s just rhetoric. The Greeks and Romans invented that stuff centuries ago.”
To me that seems accurate, but also incomplete and insufficient to dismiss current work in the fields of rhetoric, frames, and persuasive language. I find it […]
If you go to the online contact form for U.S. Congressman Mike Pence, the representative from the 6th District of Indiana, you’ll notice the list of prefixes that are available to you as you enter your contact information:
Mr.
Ms.
Miss.
Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs.
Dr.
Dr. and Mrs.
The Reverend
Father
The Reverend and Mrs.
Apparently, Congressman Pence does not believe in the following career/family […]
“Oh, they’re just two sides of the same coin.”
Yes, but have we looked closely at that coin?
The sides are different.
It’s amazing to me to see the number of things that Come Under Fire these days. Policies, remarks, institutions, countries, people and so on. When someone or something is coming under fire and we read about it in the headlines, it’s strange that in many cases, the “target” is portrayed as having done […]
Democrats and Republicans both have recently been reinforcing the frame of “coddling terrorists” as the thing you do when you don’t support the Bush administration’s policies on warrantless wiretapping, rights of prisoners, and foreign relations in general. Dictionary definitions for “coddle” include: “to treat tenderly; nurse or tend indulgently; pamper,” and “to treat with extreme […]
