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Critical Language Awareness: Language Power Techniques and English Grammar

This guide to language power techniques and associated grammar is for use in language arts, grammar, rhetoric, and English instruction at the high school, community college, and university levels. It covers metaphor, doublespeak, pronoun choice, and name-calling, as well as associated grammar features of nouns, adjectives, determiners, and pronouns. ...

Keywords:: writing, propaganda, rhetorical techniques, composition, disinformation, nouns, doublespeak, name-calling, metaphor, adjectives, pronouns, English grammar

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Humanities / English / Language / Composition and Rhetoric

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: January 3, 2023
Date Modified in MERLOT:: February 19, 2025
Authors:: Jonathon Reinhardt

Anuj Gupta, University of Arizona
Robert Poole, University of Alabama
Submitter:: Jonathon Reinhardt

Primary Audience:: High School, College Lower Division
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: iOS (Apple), Android
Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International