Rhetoric Review Apr 2013

AProgymnasmatafor Our Time: Adapting Classical Exercises to Teach Translingual Style

Brian Ray

Abstract

Scholarship on language difference has strived for decades to transform teaching practices in mainstream, developmental, and second-language writing classrooms. Despite compelling arguments in support of linguistic diversity, a majority of secondary and postsecondary writing teachers in the US still privilege Standard English. I join a number of scholars in arguing for a revival of classical style and the progymnasmata, albeit with the unique agenda of strengthening pedagogies of language difference. Although adapting classical rhetorics to promote translingual practices such as code-meshing at first seems to contradict the spirit of language difference given the dominant perception of Greco-Roman culture as imperialistic and intolerant of diversity, I reread rhetoricians such as Quintilian in order to recover their latent multilingual potential.

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Rhetoric Review
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2013-04-01
DOI
10.1080/07350198.2013.766853
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classical rhetoric writing pedagogy teacher development translingualism race and writing
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