Daniel Palma

Audience and purpose: Martin Luther King uses a varied amount of historical context to appeal towards the African American community. Correlating with historical acts of discrimination and forms of deprivation towards the African American community. MLK’s intention for using historical context in his speech was to direct any parallels to slavery and racism to invoke changes that were to be made amongst the African American community, implying freedom and opportunities in his speech. The reason why he was able to attract such a strong following is due to context given correlating figurative statements, using metaphorical language to connect with historical events.” the whirlwinds of revolt” “the signed Emancipation proclamation ------ came as a beacon of light”. The uses of metaphorical statements vary in demand for justice and relating towards slavery and racism. “the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination”. MLK’s u...

Letter to the editor: Frankly, the uses of different abbreviations and Neologism in the modern context is considered to be a linguistic benefit where the language itself has modernised due to the technological benefits (i.e phones and the internet). However, you're heavily basing on potentially a few students who got into your school by dumb luck. Majority of the students in Headington school can't be like this. The use abbreviation and colloquialism in formal academic writing are common amongst younger students, thus making me deduce that you're providing limited information about students who use colloquialism and modern Neologisms in academic writing. I mean it's commonality for language to evolve. I know that proper uses/alteration of dialects can be beneficial to the most part. Code-switching to Formal or informal dialect is essential to gain a job and presenting an academical look. But to deprecate yourselves in vague comments about students use of colloquia...