University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Carrollian language arts & rhetoric: Dodgson's quest for order & meaning, with a purpose
Abstract
dc:description.abstractLewis Carroll (Rev. Charles Dodgson) is a language specialist who has verifiably altered our lexicon and created fictional worlds that serve as commentary on our ability to effectively create meaning within our existing communicative systems. This ability to create language and illustrations of everyday language issues can be traced back to his personal quest for order and meaning; the logician and teacher has uncovered the accepted language and language practices that can result in verbal confusion and ineffective speech, as well as the accepted practices that can help us to avoid verbal confusion and social conflict—all of which reveals a theorist in his own right, one who aides our understanding of signification and pragmatic social skills. Dodgson’s fictive representations of our ordinary language concerns serve as concrete examples of contextual language interactions; therefore, they serve as appropriate material for the teaching of rhetorical theory and, most especially, language arts.
Degree
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- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Author and committee
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- Kemp, Madonna Farjado
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Jones, Rebecca Ellen
- North, Susan; Sligh, Charles L.
- College of Arts and Sciences
Subjects
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- English, eng
Identifiers
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- https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/39
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-1036