Re: language as a cognitive parser

Dale Cyphert (DXC20 who-is-at PSUVM.PSU.EDU)
Mon, 6 May 96 22:30 EDT

Judy-
I think I have to disagree that teaching oral communication belongs in the
writing pedagogy. It's the writing pedagogy that has usurped all communication
into its purview. The textual metaphor has become so synonymous with "thought"
or with "rationality" (especially in the academy) that it is VERY difficult to
focus on voice and presence without running smack into Western notions that a
"good" speech ought to look like an essay with eye contact. Makes me crazy.
dale